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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2010
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,395,166 376,670 212,395 371,548 3,355,779 22,147,455 15.2
Buses 6,124 1,008 506 963 8,601 62,445 13.8
Motorcycles 508,898 74,552 25,731 57,533 666,714 2,707,482 24.6
Lorries and vans 519,286 115,836 63,542 105,502 804,166 5,103,980 15.8
Industrial tractors 16,078 3,347 4,199 3,929 27,553 199,486 13.8
Mopeds 218,175 52,987 20,692 45,348 337,202 2,290,207 14.7
Others 98,072 17,976 15,751 19,519 151,318 865,187 17.5
Total 3,761,799 642,376 342,816 604,342 5,351,333 33,376,242 16.0
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: May 18, 2011.

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.

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 "..".