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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2017
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,449,399 404,908 226,122 400,911 3,481,340 23,623,627 14.7
Buses 6,263 1,169 510 1,132 9,074 63,590 14.3
Motorcycles 616,946 89,383 30,376 70,375 807,080 3,327,026 24.3
Lorries and vans 477,369 110,312 61,766 98,027 747,474 4,801,966 15.6
Industrial tractors 15,726 3,459 4,561 3,729 27,475 218,119 12.6
Mopeds 174,653 44,845 18,238 38,704 276,440 1,961,544 14.1
Others 95,428 18,529 17,781 18,594 150,332 895,268 16.8
Total 3,835,784 672,605 359,354 631,472 5,499,215 34,891,140 15.8
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: October 3, 2018.

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 "..".