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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2018
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,476,810 412,092 228,628 409,999 3,527,529 24,074,151 14.7
Buses 6,495 1,176 522 1,168 9,361 64,905 14.4
Motorcycles 637,531 92,801 31,358 73,014 834,704 3,459,722 24.1
Lorries and vans 483,316 113,411 64,504 100,290 761,521 4,980,911 15.3
Industrial tractors 16,168 3,517 4,742 3,567 27,994 225,942 12.4
Mopeds 171,557 43,167 17,747 37,425 269,896 1,933,445 14.0
Others 98,887 19,144 18,116 18,304 154,451 924,351 16.7
Total 3,890,764 685,308 365,617 643,767 5,585,456 35,663,427 15.7
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: July 18, 2019.

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 "..".