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Authorisations for road transport. Provinces

Authorisations for road transport. Provinces 2003
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Passengers 14,023 1,407 960 1,394 17,784
Public vehicles < 9 seats 10,922 701 496 677 12,796
Private vehicles 287 50 66 83 486
Public service buses 2,814 656 398 634 4,502
Goods 90,703 18,954 14,831 19,051 143,539
Public service vehicles 35,888 5,420 5,876 5,826 53,010
Private service vehicles 54,815 13,534 8,955 13,225 90,529
Mixed 346 36 1,591 22 1,975
Public service vehicles 0 0 2 0 2
Private service vehicles 346 36 1,589 22 1,973
Total 105,072 20,397 17,382 20,467 163,298
Source: Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques. Direcció General de Ports i Transports.
Notes:
Public vehicles < 9 seats: Includes funeral vehicles and public transport with less than nine seats (hire vans, taxis, etc).
Private vehicles: Includes health and funeral vehicles.
Public service vehicles: Includes heavy and light vehicles.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Authorisations for transport
Permits of an administrative nature to be able to travel by land and for reasons established by applicable legislation (school transport, dangerous substances, loaded vehicles and of a certain weight, etc.).
General goods
Goods packaged in load units (sacks, crates, boxes, etc.) or units that can be counted.

Methodological aspects

Data is provided for the regular transport of road travellers inside Catalonia. The Ministry of Territory and Sustainability obtained these figures directly from companies authorised to provide these services.

Data is offered on the transport of goods by road which was obtained from the Permanent survey on the transport of goods by road published by the Ministry of Public Works.

The section on urban public transport provides information on surface transport in the most populated cities of Catalonia, provided by the Ministry of Territory and Sustainability, and also underground metropolitan transport and urban railways. With the introduction of the integrated fare in 2001, the method for counting travellers in Barcelona has changed. Travellers are now counted as each journey registered on travel tickets and not the journeys sold for each type of ticket.

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 "..".