IAV · self-driving bus or shuttle
HEAT shuttle
Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation
A small electric minibus with three seats and four standing places, built by IAV for operator Hochbahn and supported by roadside sensors and a control centre. It ran at up to 25 km/h with an attendant on board.
- Price
- —Price not published
- Autonomy
- Level 4No driver needed in its area
- Driverless
- Not yetSafety driver on board
- Fleet
- —Not published
- Speed
- 25.0 km/hFaster than 8%
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
A retired vehicle from IAV.
Real-world use
Tested in Hamburg's HafenCity from August 2019 and carried passengers on a 1.8 km, five-stop route from August 2021, around the ITS World Congress.
Maker
IAVCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Safety driver on board
- Where it runs
- Hamburg HafenCity (2019-2021)
- SAE level
- Level 4: drives itself with no one at the controls inside its approved area
How it stacks up
Against other buses & shuttles that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
HEAT shuttle (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation) is faster than 8% of the 13 other buses & shuttles that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
From the maker
HEAT shuttle (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation) is the only vehicle from IAV in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedPrice not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | HEAT shuttle (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation)IAV |  Olli 2.0Local MotorsSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  e-Palette (Tokyo 2020 version)ToyotaSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  Enviro200AV (CAVForth)Alexander Dennis with Fusion ProcessingSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2019-07-31 | 2019-09 | 2018-01 | 2019-03-18 |
| Status | Retired | Discontinued | Retired | Retired |
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| Joints | — | — | — | — |
| Speed | 25 km/h | 40 km/h | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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