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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2016
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,437,180 392,868 218,488 387,735 3,436,271 22,876,830 15.0
Buses 6,086 1,116 503 1,116 8,821 61,838 14.3
Motorcycles 598,837 86,312 29,402 68,013 782,564 3,211,474 24.4
Lorries and vans 493,881 112,843 63,475 100,253 770,452 4,879,480 15.8
Industrial tractors 15,250 3,362 4,370 3,650 26,632 207,889 12.8
Mopeds 177,451 44,845 18,238 38,704 279,238 1,987,470 14.0
Others 93,240 17,929 17,422 18,261 146,852 869,009 16.9
Total 3,821,925 659,275 351,898 617,732 5,450,830 34,093,990 16.0
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: October 23, 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 "..".