Infrastructure Technology Podcast: How AI is impacting the transportation workforce
Roads and Bridges Staff Writer Jessica Parks interviews Traffic Management Inc. Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Spano.
Key takeaways
- Artificial intelligence (AI) is already changing infrastructure work, but not in the “robots replacing everyone” way: Roads and Bridges Staff Writer Jessica Parks interviews Traffic Management Inc. (TMI) CEO Jonathan Spano on how AI is impacting the transportation workforce.
- Human judgment becomes more valuable when AI handles repetitive work: Spano notes AI can take care of repetitive tasks while experienced professionals focus on problem solving, safety decisions, agency relationships, complex engineering decisions and situations requiring experience and judgment.
- Owning your technology and data gives companies much more control: TMI developed its own ERP system and owns the underlying code and data, allowing the company to customize AI tools around its actual business instead of waiting for a third-party software vendor to build features.
- Field workers aren't going away anytime soon: Spano sees AI helping them primarily through: training, safety, dispatching, logistics, documentation and better field-management systems.
