Telematics in Brazil: Needs and Market Opportunities

This paper intends to show how Telematics has started in Brazil and describe its impact in the traditional way of making Business with commercial vehicles.

We want to make a brief comment about the main enabling technologies for the Telematics improvement:

• Telecom infrastructure: the investments after the privatisation of the sector, as well, trends for new services (WAP, SMS, Tracking, etc);
• Internet infrastructure: the growing of internet accesses and its impact in the industrial economy;
• The impact of these new technologies in the trucking Business and how Brazil is prepared for. New investments that are coming;
• The impact of IT technologies in the Brazilian GIP (Gross Internal Product) and in the Transportation market.