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O*NET detailed work activityCommunicate with others to coordinate vehicle movement
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14 jobs30 tasks
This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Communicate with others about operational plans or activities, under the O*NET work activity group Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 30 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Maintain radio or telephone contact with adjacent control towers, terminal control units, or other area control centers to coordinate aircraft movement.
- Contact pilots by radio to provide meteorological, navigational, or other information.
- Contact control towers for takeoff clearances, arrival instructions, and other information, using radio equipment.
- Confer with conductors or traffic control center personnel via radiophones to issue or receive information concerning stops, delays, or oncoming trains.
- Issue landing and take-off authorizations or instructions.
- Contact control towers for takeoff clearances, arrival instructions, and other information, using radio equipment.
- Communicate with dispatchers by radio, telephone, or computer to exchange information and receive requests for passenger service.
- Confer with flight dispatchers and weather forecasters to keep abreast of flight conditions.
- Confer with conductors and other workers via radiotelephones or computers to exchange switching information.
- Radio to flight dispatchers or other personnel to discuss incoming or outgoing aircraft.
- Relay air traffic information, such as courses, altitudes, or expected arrival times, to control centers.
- Coordinate communications between air traffic control and maintenance personnel.
- Report arrival and departure times, train delays, work order completion, and time on duty.
- Request changes in altitudes or routes as circumstances dictate.
- Confer with engineers regarding train routes, timetables, and cargoes, and to discuss alternative routes when there are rail defects or obstructions.
- Guide the driver when the bus is moving in reverse gear.
- Relay departure, arrival, delay, aircraft and airfield status, and other pertinent information to upline controlling agencies.
- Provide aircrews with information and services needed for airfield management and flight planning.
- Receive, transmit, and control message traffic.
- Act as a liaison between a ship's captain and shore personnel to ensure that schedules and budgets are maintained and that the ship is operated safely and efficiently.
- Notify workers of any special treatment required for shipments.
- Maintain air-to-ground and point-to-point radio contact with aircraft commanders.
- File instrument flight plans with air traffic control so that flights can be coordinated with other air traffic.
- Communicate with dispatchers by radio, telephone, or computer to exchange information and receive requests for passenger service.
- Act as liaisons between ships' captains and shore personnel to ensure that schedules and budgets are maintained, and that ships are operated safely and efficiently.
- Receive and post weather information and flight plan data, such as air routes or arrival and departure times.
- Post visual display boards and status boards.
- File instrument flight plans with air traffic control to ensure that flights are coordinated with other air traffic.