Will AI replace Transit and Railroad Police?
AI reaches a large part of this job’s work.
46/100
High exposure
More exposed to AI than 73% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 8% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 65% of the work
What the job involves
Protect and police railroad and transit property, employees, or passengers.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(1)
- Prepare reports documenting investigation activities and results.
Within reach(7)
- Monitor transit areas and conduct security checks to protect railroad properties, patrons, and employees.
- Apprehend or remove trespassers or thieves from railroad property or coordinate with law enforcement agencies in apprehensions and removals.
- Patrol railroad yards, cars, stations, or other facilities to protect company property or shipments and to maintain order.
- Direct security activities at derailments, fires, floods, or strikes involving railroad property.
- Direct or coordinate the daily activities or training of security staff.
and 2 more
Out of reach(4)
- Enforce traffic laws regarding the transit system and reprimand individuals who violate them.
- Examine credentials of unauthorized persons attempting to enter secured areas.
- Investigate or direct investigations of freight theft, suspicious damage or loss of passengers' valuables, or other crimes on railroad property.
- Provide training to the public or law enforcement personnel in railroad safety or security.
Also called
Patroller · Police Specialist · Railroad Police · Railroad Police Officer · Transit Police Officer · Canine Officer (K-9 Officer) · K-9 Officer · Railroad Detective
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics