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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2013
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,366,511 377,450 210,929 372,010 3,326,900 22,024,538 15.1
Buses 5,879 1,044 483 1,038 8,444 59,892 14.1
Motorcycles 538,926 78,649 27,076 61,466 706,117 2,891,204 24.4
Lorries and vans 493,579 113,526 62,744 101,559 771,408 4,887,352 15.8
Industrial tractors 14,092 3,012 3,929 3,281 24,314 182,822 13.3
Mopeds 193,473 48,296 19,185 41,252 302,206 2,107,116 14.3
Others 92,739 17,844 17,350 18,631 146,564 871,028 16.8
Total 3,705,199 639,821 341,696 599,237 5,285,953 33,023,952 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 "..".