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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2012
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,393,017 379,974 212,656 374,085 3,359,732 22,247,528 15.1
Buses 5,965 1,054 492 1,032 8,543 61,127 14.0
Motorcycles 531,934 77,559 26,709 60,561 696,763 2,852,297 24.4
Lorries and vans 504,822 114,777 63,333 103,425 786,357 4,984,722 15.8
Industrial tractors 14,692 3,091 4,020 3,408 25,211 186,964 13.5
Mopeds 202,007 49,820 19,693 42,583 314,103 2,169,668 14.5
Others 95,333 17,870 16,700 18,863 148,766 870,565 17.1
Total 3,747,770 644,145 343,603 603,957 5,339,475 33,372,871 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 "..".