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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2015
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,385,649 382,897 213,901 378,421 3,360,868 22,355,549 15.0
Buses 5,971 1,088 485 1,062 8,606 60,252 14.3
Motorcycles 571,878 83,264 28,341 65,444 748,927 3,079,463 24.3
Lorries and vans 488,554 113,099 62,766 100,374 764,793 4,851,518 15.8
Industrial tractors 14,535 3,201 4,126 3,492 25,354 195,657 13.0
Mopeds 181,630 45,899 18,534 39,489 285,552 2,023,211 14.1
Others 91,445 17,705 16,901 17,899 143,950 847,244 17.0
Total 3,739,662 647,153 345,054 606,181 5,338,050 33,412,894 16.0
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 "..".