Industry Findings: Industrial corridors and tourism-heavy urban centers are shaping system development priorities. The Eastern Economic Corridor’s investment in smart manufacturing and autonomous logistics—combined with city-level trials in smart mobility—creates a dual-track environment where suppliers must balance factory-speed precision with complex public-interaction scenarios. This mix pushes vendors to create adaptable autonomy stacks capable of shifting between structured production lines and unstructured, high-traffic city flows.
Industry Progression: Strategic smart-corridor investments are turning discrete demos into repeatable public-service procurements, shaping expectations for multimodal autonomy; Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) incentives and the launch of a 5G-powered unmanned electric bus trial in Ayutthaya (March 2024) provide replicable operational data for passenger and logistics use cases — this encourages municipalities and logistics operators to tender for end-to-end autonomy solutions, raising the bar for safety validation, 5G-integrated telemetry and mixed-traffic robustness.
Industry Players: Players operating in the Thailand industry are King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi MOVE centre, Toyota Motor Thailand, AIS/True telco partners, EV startup integrators, and regional AV integrators etc. Thailand’s research-to-pilot pathway is converting academic prototypes into city-scale mobility pilots: KMUTT’s MOVE programme and its Level-3 electric shuttle trials (2023–2024) demonstrated operator willingness to trial higher-capability buses on controlled routes, which gives local authorities confidence to draft safety protocols and encourages vendors offering validated EV-autonomy stacks, local maintenance, and telco-integrated connectivity for scaled municipal deployments.