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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2006
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Cars 2,343,813 357,012 199,095 342,675 3,242,595 20,908,725 15.5
Buses 5,613 866 486 816 7,781 59,105 13.2
Motorcycles 409,571 60,333 20,378 45,889 536,171 2,050,531 26.1
Lorries and vans 512,195 109,397 59,706 100,536 781,834 4,886,013 16.0
Industrial tractors 16,234 3,520 4,028 4,108 27,890 201,298 13.9
Others 88,707 15,984 13,001 17,712 135,404 765,720 17.7
Total 3,376,133 547,112 296,694 511,736 4,731,675 28,871,392 16.4
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 "..".