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O*NET detailed work activityMonitor vehicle movement or location
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8 jobs13 tasks
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Part of Monitor operations to ensure adequate performance, under the O*NET work activity group Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 8 AI-assist, 5 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Monitor aircraft within a specific airspace, using radar, computer equipment, or visual references.
- Monitor, direct, or sequence the movement of aircraft within an assigned air space or on the ground at airports to minimize delays and maximize safety.
- Observe position and progress of vessels to ensure best use of lock spaces or bridge opening spaces.
- Monitor the arrival, parking, refueling, loading, and departure of all aircraft.
- Observe yard traffic to determine tracks available to accommodate inbound and outbound traffic.
- Spot cars for loading and unloading at customer locations.
- Maintain and guard stations in bridges to check waterways for boat traffic.
- Mark tires of parked vehicles with chalk and record time of marking, and return at regular intervals to ensure that parking time limits are not exceeded.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Monitor lights indicating obstructions or other trains ahead and watch for car and truck traffic at crossings to stay alert to potential hazards.
- Check conditions and traffic at different altitudes in response to pilots' requests for altitude changes.
- Observe approaching vessels to determine size and speed, and listen for whistle signals indicating desire to pass.
- Observe positions of cars passing loading spouts, and swing spouts into the correct positions at the appropriate times.
- Raise drawbridges and observe passage of water traffic or lower drawbridges and raise automobile gates.