摘要：The current discussion of automated vehicles mainly focuses on road-based passenger cars. However, automated micro-vehicles for delivery purposes might be more lucrative and even earlier available on the market. Until now, limited research is available about the global development of automated micro-vehicles for urban logistics. This paper conducts a market analysis on them to gain knowledge about the state of the art in respect to application, business model, and technical set-up. This study identifies 39 automated micro-vehicles. Their specific fields of application are still under test, but they focus on food/grocery delivery, post/parcel delivery, maintenance service, spare parts supply, delivery service for local shops, and mobile sales room services. We furthermore developed a classification dividing automated micro-vehicles by infrastructure (road, non-road), vehicle (delivery robot, bicycle) and human role. The analysis of the technical equipment shows, that the technical set-up between vehicle classes differs greatly due to different fields of application and infrastructure used.
关键词：Keywordsautonomous mobile robotsautonomous vehiclesautomated vehiclesautomated bicycledelivery robotautonomous unmanned ground vehiclesurban freight transport (UFT)urban goods movementurban logisticscargo bike
