Vehicles Traffic Management and GIS Planning System 
A Study of DETRAN Project - 
Parana State /Brazil 
Celso Goncalo Dias Junior 
GIS/RS researcher 
STATE OF PARANA 
State Office of Public Safety 
DETRAN - State Vehicles Traffic Department 
Av. Victor Ferreira do Amaral, 2940 - ZIP 82800 900 
Curitiba, PR, Brazil 
Keywords: GIS, Cartography, Statistics, Planning, Mapping, Database 
PURPOSE: 
The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the potential use of a Geographic Information 
System that will permit to elaborate several georeference thematic mapping and its application 
for vehicles traffic planning and management. 
1. INTRODUCTION 
The State Office of Public Safety through the 
State Vehicles Traffic Department, makes 
happen frequently careful and diligent search 
about car accident, drivers licenses issuing 
and further information concerned to Traffic 
Department, specific areas all over State of 
Parana. 
The Research has been making using a 
special subjective way like filling 
applications, official reports and workshops 
in the Microregional Centers of Traffic, 
called CIRETRANS. 
This method, consolidated by time, produces 
widely used by different Department and 
Institution which are connected by searching 
and interpreting knowlegede about traffic in 
State of Parana and all over the Country 
(Brazil). 
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To bring out the possibilities of increasing 
the research method of having information 
by developing proceeds and then a 
connection with a Geographic System 
Information, DETRAN, spread out a special 
key which will allow the way of approach 
into a data mechanism, that analyses and 
provide the elaboration several thematic 
maps. 
The developing of this method was 
determinate from a careful searching of the 
inside necessities to obtain the final results. 
In fact to obtain the results DETRAN using 
information collected from its regional 
sections, collects monthly data researches 
about traffic, with good results. 
Recently, DETRAN, has been associated to a 
new program, which will allow obtain “on 
line” information, and that will open a new 
gate for creating a great solution for a very 
serious situation: the manual data research. 
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