DHL Trend Research’s recent report on Self-Driving Vehicles in Logistics also noted the increasing use of autonomous vehicles to move materials around plants and distribution centers, in yards and around ports. Beyond that, Markus Kueckelhaus, director of DHL Trend Research, sees autonomous trucks or delivery vans moving first to highways with limited speeds rather than to busy urban streets with heavy pedestrian and vehicle traffic. “The situations where we have low speeds and where we can immediately control the trucks or the vehicles—those are also the situations where we see autonomous logistics of self-driving trucks to be appropriate in the future,” he said.