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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2005
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Cars 2,314,995 345,353 192,439 328,314 3,181,101 20,250,377 15.7
Buses 5,437 826 475 791 7,529 58,248 12.9
Motorcycles 372,670 54,238 18,427 41,031 486,366 1,805,827 26.9
Lorries and vans 491,979 103,516 57,229 95,688 748,412 4,655,413 16.1
Industrial tractors 15,723 3,475 3,920 3,983 27,101 194,206 14.0
Others 80,512 14,640 11,517 15,819 122,488 693,205 17.7
Total 3,281,316 522,048 284,007 485,626 4,572,997 27,657,276 16.5
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 "..".