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O*NET detailed work activityControl equipment that regulates vehicle traffic
Stays humanHands-on work
4 jobs7 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Operate transportation equipment or vehicles, under the O*NET work activity group Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 7 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Control machinery to open and close canal locks and dams, railroad or highway drawbridges, or horizontally or vertically adjustable bridges.
- Move levers to activate traffic signals, navigation lights, and alarms.
- Pull or push track switches to reroute cars.
- Operate track switches, derails, automatic switches, and retarders to change routing of train or cars.
- Operate controls to activate track switches and traffic signals.
- Raise drawbridges and observe passage of water traffic or lower drawbridges and raise automobile gates.