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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2011
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,402,574 378,869 212,894 373,732 3,368,069 22,277,244 15.1
Buses 6,111 1,044 515 1,019 8,689 62,358 13.9
Motorcycles 523,361 76,508 26,334 59,410 685,613 2,798,043 24.5
Lorries and vans 513,009 115,456 63,600 104,653 796,718 5,060,791 15.7
Industrial tractors 15,490 3,262 4,234 3,716 26,702 195,960 13.6
Mopeds 209,763 51,334 20,197 43,916 325,210 2,229,418 14.6
Others 97,125 18,131 16,483 19,353 151,092 874,685 17.3
Total 3,767,433 644,604 344,257 605,799 5,362,093 33,498,499 16.0
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: July 20, 2017.

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 "..".