Planning, management, and movement of people, materials, and goods by road, pipeline, air, rail and water and related professional support services such as transportation infrastructure planning and management, logistics services, mobile equipment and facility maintenance.

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul aircraft engines and assemblies, such as hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians

Service automobiles, buses, trucks, boats, and other automotive or marine vehicles with fuel, lubricants, and accessories. Collect payment for services and supplies. May lubricate vehicle, change motor oil, refill antifreeze, or replace lights or other accessories, such as windshield wiper blades or fan belts. May repair or replace tires.

Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants

Repair and refinish automotive vehicle bodies and straighten vehicle frames.

Automotive Body and Related Repairers

Replace or repair broken windshields and window glass in motor vehicles.

Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers

Repair automobiles, trucks, buses, and other vehicles. Master mechanics repair virtually any part on the vehicle or specialize in the transmission system.

Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics

Automotive Master Mechanics

Repair only one system or component on a vehicle, such as brakes, suspension, or radiator.

Automotive Specialty Technicians

Install, inspect, test, adjust, or repair avionics equipment, such as radar, radio, navigation, and missile control systems in aircraft or space vehicles.

Avionics Technicians

Bicycle Repairers

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul buses and trucks, or maintain and repair any type of diesel engines. Includes mechanics working primarily with automobile or marine diesel engines.

Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists

Wash or otherwise clean vehicles, machinery, and other equipment. Use such materials as water, cleaning agents, brushes, cloths, and hoses.

Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment

Install, adjust, or maintain mobile electronics communication equipment, including sound, sonar, security, navigation, and surveillance systems on trains, watercraft, or other mobile equipment.

Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment

Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers of Transportation Equipment

Install, diagnose, or repair communications, sound, security, or navigation equipment in motor vehicles.

Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles

Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers of Motor Vehicles

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul mobile mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment, such as cranes, bulldozers, graders, and conveyors, used in construction, logging, and mining.

Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines

Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics

Repair and adjust electrical and mechanical equipment of inboard or inboard-outboard boat engines.

Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, dirt bikes, or similar motorized vehicles.

Motorcycle Mechanics

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul railroad rolling stock, mine cars, or mass transit rail cars.

Rail Car Repairers

Lay, repair, and maintain track for standard or narrow-gauge railroad equipment used in regular railroad service or in plant yards, quarries, sand and gravel pits, and mines. Includes ballast cleaning machine operators and railroad bed tamping machine operators.

Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators

Diagnose, inspect, adjust, repair, or overhaul recreational vehicles including travel trailers. May specialize in maintaining gas, electrical, hydraulic, plumbing, or chassis/towing systems as well as repairing generators, appliances, and interior components. Includes workers who perform customized van conversions.

Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians

Perform onsite repairs, tests, and maintenance to roadside vehicles. May include replacing tires, repairing engines, and inspecting and testing vehicles.

Roadside Vehicle Technicians

Install, inspect, test, maintain, or repair electric gate crossings, signals, signal equipment, track switches, section lines, or intercommunications systems within a railroad system.

Signal and Track Switch Repairers

Tire Repairers and Changers

Facility and Mobile Equipment Maintenance

Coordinate the planning of ground control, the maintenance of aircraft, and the handling of customers. Manage everyday safety, quality, and risks. Plan and compare performance with other air navigation service providers.

Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

Air Traffic Managers

Schedule and dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles for conveyance of materials, freight, or passengers, or for normal installation, service, or emergency repairs rendered outside the place of business. Duties may include using radio, telephone, or computer to transmit assignments and compiling statistics and reports on work progress.

Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance

Dispatchers

Analyze product delivery or supply chain processes to identify or recommend changes. May manage route activity including invoicing, electronic bills, and shipment tracing.

Logistics Analysts

Design or analyze operational solutions for projects such as transportation optimization, network modeling, process and methods analysis, cost containment, capacity enhancement, routing and shipment optimization, or information management.

Logistics Engineers

Plan, direct, or coordinate purchasing, warehousing, distribution, forecasting, customer service, or planning services. Manage logistics personnel and logistics systems and direct daily operations.

Logistics Managers

Oversee all activities required for a successful move. Receive briefings from the client and translate them into actions and activities that assure a smooth, competitive, and satisfactory move.

Move Coordinators

Support the organisation's asset management strategy including development, operation, maintenance, upgrade, and disposal of assets in the most cost-effective manner including all costs, risks, and performance attributes.

Physical Asset Analysts

Direct, plan, or coordinate the organisation's asset management strategy including development, operation, maintenance, upgrade, and disposal of assets in the most cost-effective manner including all costs, risks, and performance attributes.

Physical Asset Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate the storage or distribution operations within an organization or the activities of organizations that are engaged in storing or distributing materials or products.

Storage and Distribution Managers

Develop, market, promote, and implement different supply chain consulting strategies. May develop ideas to reduce supply expenses and perform sales tasks to increase revenue growth and client satisfaction.

Logisticians

Supply Chain Consultants

Plan, direct, or coordinate the transportation operations within an organization or the activities of organizations that provide transportation services.

Transportation Managers

Logistics Planning and Management Services

Compile data, compute fees and charges, and prepare invoices for billing purposes. Duties include computing costs and calculating rates for goods, services, and shipment of goods; posting data; and keeping other relevant records. May involve use of computer or typewriter, calculator, and adding and bookkeeping machines.

Billing and Posting Clerks

Billing, Cost, and Rate Clerks

Expedite and route movement of incoming and outgoing cargo and freight shipments in airline, train, and trucking terminals and shipping docks. Take orders from customers and arrange pickup of freight and cargo for delivery to loading platform. Prepare and examine bills of lading to determine shipping charges and tariffs.

Cargo and Freight Agents

Research rates, routings, or modes of transport for shipment of products. Maintain awareness of regulations affecting the international movement of cargo. Make arrangements for additional services, such as storage or inland transportation.

Freight Forwarders

Park vehicles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May park or tend vehicles in environments such as a car dealership or rental car facility. May collect fee.

Parking Attendants

Parking Lot Attendants

Prepare and distribute bank statements to customers, answer inquiries, and reconcile discrepancies in records and accounts.

Statement Clerks

Sales and Service

Supervise and coordinate the activities of ground crew in the loading, unloading, securing, and staging of aircraft cargo or baggage. May determine the quantity and orientation of cargo and compute aircraft center of gravity. May accompany aircraft as member of flight crew and monitor and handle cargo in flight, and assist and brief passengers on safety and emergency procedures. Includes loadmasters.

Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors

Aircraft Cargo Managers

Pilot and navigate the flight of fixed-wing aircraft, usually on scheduled air carrier routes, for the transport of passengers and cargo. Requires Federal Air Transport certificate and rating for specific aircraft type used. Includes regional, national, and international airline pilots.

Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers

Drive ambulance or assist ambulance driver in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons. Assist in lifting patients.

Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians

Ambulance Drivers and Attendants

Command spacecrafts for operations beyond low Earth orbit or higher than the regular altitude reached by commercial flights. Perform scientific research, launch or release satellites, and build space stations.

Astronauts

Operate and tend bridges, canal locks, and lighthouses to permit marine passage on inland waterways, near shores, and at danger points in waterway passages. May coordinate such operations. Includes drawbridge operators, lock operators, and slip bridge operators.

Bridge and Lock Tenders

Transport students or special clients, such as the elderly or persons with disabilities. Ensure adherence to safety rules. May assist passengers in boarding or exiting.

Bus Drivers, School

Bus Drivers, School or Special Client

Drive bus or motor coach, including regular route operations, charters, and private carriage. May assist passengers with baggage. May collect fares or tickets.

Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity

Pilot and navigate the flight of fixed-wing aircraft on nonscheduled air carrier routes, or helicopters. Requires Commercial Pilot certificate. Includes charter pilots with similar certification, and air ambulance and air tour pilots. Excludes regional, national, and international airline pilots.

Commercial Pilots

Pick up and deliver messages, documents, packages, and other items between offices or departments within an establishment or directly to other business concerns, traveling by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, or public conveyance.

Couriers and Messengers

Operate drones via remote controllers for purposes including filmmaking, imaging structures, agriculture, marketing research, and rescue operations.

Drone Pilots

Monitor safety of the aircraft cabin. Provide services to airline passengers, explain safety information, serve food and beverages, and respond to emergency incidents.

Flight Attendants

Operate steam-, gas-, electric motor-, or internal combustion-engine driven compressors. Transmit, compress, or recover gases, such as butane, nitrogen, hydrogen, and natural gas.

Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators

Drive a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,001 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). May be required to unload truck. Requires commercial drivers' license. Includes tow truck drivers.

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers

Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.

Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators

Manually move freight, stock, luggage, or other materials, or perform other general labor. Includes all manual laborers not elsewhere classified.

Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

Drive a light vehicle, such as a truck or van, with a capacity of less than 26,001 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), primarily to pick up merchandise or packages from a distribution center and deliver. May load and unload vehicle.

Light Truck Drivers

Light Truck or Delivery Services Drivers

Drive electric, diesel-electric, steam, or gas-turbine-electric locomotives to transport passengers or freight. Interpret train orders, electronic or manual signals, and railroad rules and regulations.

Locomotive Engineers

Monitor locomotive instruments and watch for dragging equipment, obstacles on rights-of-way, and train signals during run. Watch for and relay traffic signals from yard workers to yard engineer in railroad yard.

Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers

Locomotive Firers

Coordinate activities of crew aboard ships, boats, barges, or dredges.

Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

Mates- Ship, Boat, and Barge

Operate small motor-driven boats. May assist in navigational activities.

Motorboat Operators

Handle goods and belongings to be relocated or transported. Work in a team to disassemble goods, machinery, or belongings for transportation and assemble or install them at their new location. Ensure that objects are well protected and packed, secured, and placed correctly in trucks and transports.

Movers

Pack or package by hand a wide variety of products and materials.

Packers and Packagers, Hand

Command ships to steer them into and out of harbors, estuaries, straits, or sounds, or on rivers, lakes, or bays. Must be licensed with limitations indicating class and tonnage of vessels for which license is valid and route and waters that may be piloted.

Pilots, Ship

Tend, control, or operate power-driven, stationary, or portable pumps and manifold systems to transfer gases, oil, other liquids, slurries, or powdered materials to and from various vessels and processes.

Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers

Pump Operators

Drive switching or other locomotive or dinkey engines within railroad yard, industrial plant, quarry, construction project, or similar location.

Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers

Operate railroad track switches. Couple or uncouple rolling stock to make up or break up trains. Signal engineers by hand or flagging. May inspect couplings, air hoses, journal boxes, and hand brakes.

Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators

Coordinate activities of switch-engine crew within railroad yard, industrial plant, or similar location. Conductors coordinate activities of train crew on passenger or freight trains. Yardmasters review train schedules and switching orders and coordinate activities of workers engaged in railroad traffic operations, such as the makeup or breakup of trains and yard switching.

Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters

Supervise curbside and drop-off recycling programs for municipal governments or private firms.

Recycling Coordinators

Stand watch to look for obstructions in path of vessel, measure water depth, turn wheel on bridge, or use emergency equipment as directed by captain, mate, or pilot. Break out, rig, overhaul, and store cargo-handling gear, stationary rigging, and running gear. Perform a variety of maintenance tasks to preserve the painted surface of the ship and to maintain line and ship equipment. Must hold government-issued certification and tankerman certification when working aboard liquid-carrying vessels. Includes able seamen and ordinary seamen.

Sailors and Marine Oilers

Command vessels in oceans, bays, lakes, rivers, or coastal waters.

Ship and Boat Captains

Supervise and coordinate activities of crew engaged in operating and maintaining engines, boilers, deck machinery, and electrical, sanitary, and refrigeration equipment aboard ship.

Ship Engineers

Operate subway or elevated suburban trains with no separate locomotive, or electric-powered streetcar, to transport passengers. May handle fares.

Subway and Streetcar Operators

Load and unload chemicals and bulk solids, such as coal, sand, and grain, into or from tank cars, trucks, or ships, using material moving equipment. May perform a variety of other tasks relating to shipment of products. May gauge or sample shipping tanks and test them for leaks.

Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders

Drive automobiles, vans, or limousines to transport passengers. May occasionally carry cargo. Includes hearse drivers.

Taxi Drivers

Taxi Drivers and Chauffeurs

Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of helpers, laborers, or manual material movers.

First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand

Transport Laborer Managers

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of material-moving machine and vehicle operators and helpers.

First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators

Transport Vehicle Operator Managers

Provide services to ensure the safety of passengers aboard ships, buses, trains, or within the station or terminal. Perform duties such as explaining the use of safety equipment, serving meals or beverages, or answering questions related to travel.

Passenger Attendants

Transportation Attendants

Operate power pumps and auxiliary equipment to produce flow of oil or gas from wells in oil field.

Wellhead Pumpers

Transportation Operations

Control air traffic on and within vicinity of airport, and movement of air traffic between altitude sectors and control centers, according to established procedures and policies. Authorize, regulate, and control commercial airline flights according to government or company regulations to expedite and ensure flight safety.

Air Traffic Controllers

Ensure the safe takeoff and landing of commercial and military aircraft. Duties include coordination between air-traffic control and maintenance personnel, dispatching, using airfield landing and navigational aids, implementing airfield safety procedures, monitoring and maintaining flight records, and applying knowledge of weather information.

Airfield Operations Specialists

Conduct field studies to determine traffic volume, speed, effectiveness of signals, adequacy of lighting, and other factors influencing traffic conditions, under direction of traffic engineer.

Traffic Technicians

Transportation Systems/Infrastructure Planning, Management and Regulation

The U.S. spends more than $1.64 trillion annually on transportation logistics.

Large economic impact

More than 5 million workers are employed in occupations in this cluster, representing about 3.6% of total U.S. jobs.

Employment numbers

Most careers in transportation and logistics pay wages that are higher than the national median.

High wages

Trucks deliver nearly 70% of all freight in the U.S. Experts estimate there are 50,000 truck driver jobs unfilled, and trucking-related jobs account for about one-third of job openings in the industry.