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Authorisations for road transport. Provinces

Authorisations for road transport. Provinces Catalonia
Passengers Public vehicles < 9 seats Public service buses Goods Public service vehicles Private service vehicles Total
2022 19,696 14,043 5,653 75,991 62,663 13,328 95,687
2021 22,547 16,668 5,879 72,190 57,245 14,945 94,737
2020 21,796 15,976 5,820 73,276 59,050 14,226 95,072
2019 21,239 15,686 5,553 73,276 59,050 14,226 94,515
2018 21,083 14,966 6,117 66,046 50,767 15,279 87,129
2017 18,332 12,613 5,719 69,823 55,528 14,295 88,155
2016 19,218 13,598 5,620 65,002 49,456 15,546 84,220
2015 18,206 13,006 5,200 64,325 50,038 14,287 82,531
2014 17,786 12,490 5,296 59,895 44,393 15,502 77,681
2013 17,399 12,159 5,240 62,507 47,258 15,249 79,906
2012 17,863 12,576 5,287 64,698 48,198 16,500 82,561
Source:
2012-2019: Ministry of Territory and Sustainability.
2020-2021: Ministry of the Vice-presidency, Digital Policies and Territory.
2022: Ministry of Territory.
Notes:
Public vehicles < 9 seats: Includes funeral vehicles and public transport with less than nine seats (hire vans, taxis, etc).
Public service vehicles: Includes heavy and light vehicles.

Last update: October 18, 2023.

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 "..".

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