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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2023
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,401,161 428,387 236,966 436,130 3,502,644 25,356,594 13.8
Buses 6,782 1,105 528 1,279 9,694 66,638 14.5
Motorcycles 713,033 110,031 36,953 87,878 947,895 4,162,850 22.8
Lorries and vans 447,676 112,886 66,321 99,871 726,754 5,148,231 14.1
Industrial tractors 18,497 4,095 6,154 4,036 32,782 253,334 12.9
Mopeds 154,006 39,713 16,577 35,142 245,438 1,815,623 1.9
Others 112,059 23,752 21,278 21,396 178,485 1,087,591 16.4
Total 3,853,214 719,969 384,777 685,732 5,643,692 37,890,861 15.0
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: October 7, 2024.

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 "..".