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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.

The approach of the proposed technical work: - Brazilian market needs and requirements - The Internet growing up and Telematics, - Potential business to be found out, - Technical approach, - Conclusions

We intend to present in this work the potential of the application of renewable natural products as raw materials within the production of components for the automobile industry, encouraging the development of technologies ecologically correct for the benefit of a sustainable development. We present the objectives of the Program Poverty and and Enviroment in the Amazon - POEMA and the results already obtained through the integration and performance of vital parts which indicates in the human development and in the Amazon ecosystems preservation, its main point of convergence. We have made an analisys of the mechanics properties of the main tillable vegetal fibres as well as the performance of thermoplastic parts reinforced with flax fibres, sisal and hemp compared to the glass fibres.

The emission control for commercial vehicles in Latin America has just begun and it brings an exceptional opportunity for the introduction of a common concept towards an air quality program suited for developing countries. The analysis of prior experiences accumulated by countries where legislations on that field have already been settled and improved is a worthy tool to choose the most convenient alternative to deal with the emission control in an affordable way. Steady-state test procedures provide enough information to estimate the engine emission levels on actual operation, avoiding the use of expensive facilities. Through simple and already well-proven methods and considering all aspects concerning the problem, from the fuel quality to the vehicle maintenance, it is possible to reach the main aim, the air preservation, alloting fewer resources and promoting Latin America's integration.