Micro-mobility is increasingly recognised as a promising mode of urban transport, particularly for its potential to reduce private vehicle use for short-distance travel. Despite valuable research contributions that represent fundamental knowledge on this topic, today’s body of research appears quite fragmented in relation to the role of micro-mobility as a transformative solution for meeting sustainability outcomes in urban environments. This paper consolidates knowledge on the topic, analyses past and on-going research developments, and provides future research directions by using a rigorous and auditable systematic literature review methodology. To achieve these objectives, the paper analysed 328 journal publications from the Scopus database covering the period between 2000 and 2020. A bibliographic analysis was used to identify relevant publications and explore the changing landscape of micro-mobility research. The study constructed and visualised the literature’s bibliometric networks through citations and co-citations analyses for authors, articles, journals and countries. The findings showed a consistent spike in recent research outputs covering the sustainability aspects of micro-mobility reflecting its importance as a low-carbon and transformative mode of urban transport. The co-citation analysis, in particular, helped to categorise the literature into four main research themes that address benefits, technology, policy and behavioural mode-choice categories where the majority of research has been focused during the analysis period. For each cluster, inductive reasoning is used to discuss the emerging trends, barriers as well as pathways to overcome challenges to wide-scale deployment. This article provides a balanced and objective summary of research evidence on the topic and serves as a reference point for further research on micro-mobility for sustainable cities.

微型交通日益被认为是一种有前途的城市交通方式，特别是因为它有潜力减少短途旅行的私家车使用。尽管代表这一主题的基础知识的有价值的研究贡献十分可观，但今天的研究仍显得微不足道，因为微型交通作为实现城市环境中可持续性成果的变革性解决方案的作用。本文巩固了有关该主题的知识，分析了过去和正在进行的研究进展，并通过使用严格且可审核的系统文献综述方法论提供了未来的研究方向。为了实现这些目标，本文分析了Scopus数据库中328种期刊出版物，涉及2000年至2020年。书目分析被用来确定相关出版物，并探索微型交通研究的变化格局。该研究通过对作者，文章，期刊和国家的引文和共引分析来构建和可视化文献的文献计量网络。这些发现表明，在涉及微型交通的可持续性方面的最新研究成果中，出现了持续增长的趋势，这反映了微型交通作为低碳和变革性城市交通方式的重要性。特别是，共引分析有助于将文献归类为四个主要研究主题，这些主题涉及收益，技术，政策和行为方式选择类别，而在此期间，大部分研究都集中在这两个领域。对于每个类，归纳推理用于讨论新兴趋势，障碍以及克服大规模部署挑战的途径。本文提供了关于该主题的平衡而客观的研究证据摘要，并为进一步研究可持续城市的微型出行提供了参考。