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Professionals · code 2164

Town and traffic planners

Town and traffic planners develop and implement plans and policies for the controlled use of urban and rural land and for traffic systems. They conduct research and provide advice on economic, environmental and social factors affecting land use and traffic flows. Tasks include - (a) planning layout and coordinating development of urban areas; (b) compiling and analysing data on economic, legal, political, cultural, demographic, sociological, physical and environmental factors affecting land use; (c) conferring with government authorities, communities and specialists in fields such as architecture, planning, social science, the environment and the law; (d) devising and recommending use and development of land, and presenting narrative and graphic plans, programmes and designs to groups and individuals; (e) advising governments, companies and communities on urban and regional planning issues and proposals; (f) reviewing and evaluating environmental impact reports; (g) planning and coordinating the development of land areas for parks, schools, institutions, airports, roadways and related projects, and for commercial, industrial and residential sites; (h) planning and advising on routing and control of road traffic and public transportation systems for efficiency and safety. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Land planner - Traffic planner - Urban planner Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Building architect - 2161 - Landscape architect - 2162

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 331 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • urban planner
  • transport planner
  • land planner

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

59.2
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 40.8 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 40.8 = 59.2

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

9
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

9
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 25 · hand skill 0 · cramped spaces 2 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 9 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 51.3, while the average is 40.8. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 51.3

    Planning and advising on routing and control of road traffic and public transportation systems for efficiency and safety.

    Medium
  2. 44

    Compiling and analysing data on economic, legal, political, cultural, demographic, sociological, physical and environmental factors affecting land use

    Low
  3. 42

    Reviewing and evaluating environmental impact reports

    Low
  4. 41.8

    Advising governments, companies and communities on urban and regional planning issues and proposals

    Low
  5. 41.5

    Devising and recommending use and development of land, and presenting narrative and graphic plans, programmes and designs to groups and individuals

    Low
  6. 39

    Planning layout and coordinating development of urban areas

    Low
  7. 34

    Planning and coordinating the development of land areas for parks, schools, institutions, airports, roadways and related projects, and for commercial, industrial and residential sites

    Low
  8. 33

    Conferring with government authorities, communities and specialists in fields such as architecture, planning, social science the environment and the law

    Low

8 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
71
AI does it for you
45

Helping wins by 26 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2326

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.4. This one is below that.