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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2003
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Cars 2,188,576 319,820 178,134 298,146 2,984,676 18,688,320 16.0
Buses 5,154 736 477 771 7,138 55,993 12.7
Motorcycles 323,088 45,908 16,119 35,218 420,333 1,513,526 27.8
Lorries and vans 453,892 92,767 52,534 86,002 685,195 4,188,910 16.4
Industrial tractors 14,189 3,255 3,597 3,654 24,695 174,507 14.2
Others 64,677 11,776 9,436 12,280 98,169 548,196 17.9
Total 3,049,576 474,262 260,297 436,071 4,220,206 25,169,452 16.8
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Buses
Vehicles whose purpose is transport of travellers with a capacity for more than nine persons, including the driver. Trolleybuses (vehicles connected to an electrical line that do not move around on rails) are excluded from this category.
Lorries and vans
Vehicles whose purpose is transport of goods (motorcycles with three wheels, weighing no less than 400 kg are excluded).
Motorcycles
Two-wheeled vehicles, with or without a sidecar the passenger compartment laterally attached to the motorcycle. Cars for disabled people are also included in this category.
Fleet of motor vehicles
Set of motor vehicles in circulation (except mopeds and special vehicles). It is made up of the registrations for each year, minus any vehicles retired and reported. This group includes: buses, trucks and vans, motorcycles, industrial tractors and estate cars.
Industrial tractors
Vehicles capable of dragging a semi-trailer, without taking farming tractors into account.
Private cars
Four-wheeled vehicle whose purpose is transportation of travellers, with a maximum capacity of nine people, including the driver.

Methodological aspects

On December, 31.

From 2010 on, mopeds are included.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".