Announce routes or stops.

“Announce routes or stops.” is a task performed by School Bus Monitors. Among the occupation's 18 rated tasks, workers place it 18th by importance (#1 most important).

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Provide information to guests, clients, or customers. in Communicating with People Outside the Organization

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T4.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Assist disabled children or children with psychological, emotional, or behavioral issues with boarding and exiting the school bus.
• Buckle seatbelts or fasten wheelchair tie-down straps to secure passengers for transportation.
• Clean school bus interiors by picking up waste, wiping down windows, or vacuuming.
• Direct students boarding and exiting the school bus.
• Direct students evacuating the bus during safety drills.
• Escort young children across roads or highways.
• Evacuate students from the school bus in emergency situations.
• Guide the driver when the bus is moving in reverse gear.
• Monitor for trains at railroad crossings and signal the bus driver when it is safe to proceed.
• Monitor the conduct of students to maintain discipline and safety.
• Open and close school bus doors for students.
• Operate a wheelchair lift to load or unload wheelchairs.
• Prevent or defuse altercations between students.
• Report delays, accidents, or other traffic and transportation situations to dispatchers or other bus drivers, using phones or mobile two-way radios.

See all tasks on the School Bus Monitors page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-23081,
  title  = {Announce routes or stops.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-23081}
}