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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2014
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,347,766 377,695 211,187 372,948 3,309,596 22,029,512 15.0
Buses 5,902 1,069 493 1,060 8,524 59,799 14.3
Motorcycles 551,787 80,618 27,665 63,188 723,258 2,972,165 24.3
Lorries and vans 484,340 112,926 62,573 100,741 760,580 4,839,484 15.7
Industrial tractors 14,046 3,015 3,913 3,351 24,325 186,060 13.1
Mopeds 186,888 47,127 18,789 40,289 293,093 2,061,044 14.2
Others 92,008 18,082 18,157 18,955 147,202 889,027 16.6
Total 3,682,737 640,532 342,777 600,532 5,266,578 33,037,091 15.9
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: July 11, 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 "..".