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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2019
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,486,907 420,150 233,418 419,753 3,560,228 24,558,126 14.5
Buses 6,726 1,193 528 1,189 9,636 65,470 14.7
Motorcycles 655,999 96,446 32,393 75,825 860,663 3,607,226 23.9
Lorries and vans 476,362 113,181 65,126 100,256 754,925 5,015,973 15.1
Industrial tractors 16,485 3,470 4,877 3,664 28,496 232,680 12.2
Mopeds 168,919 42,347 17,460 36,957 265,683 1,908,492 13.9
Others 101,642 19,635 18,766 19,175 159,218 955,316 16.7
Total 3,913,040 696,422 372,568 656,819 5,638,849 36,343,283 15.5
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: June 12, 2020.

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 "..".