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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2020
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,469,693 423,421 235,940 425,204 3,554,258 24,716,898 14.4
Buses 6,401 978 503 1,164 9,046 63,387 14.3
Motorcycles 670,555 99,320 33,688 78,531 882,094 3,735,920 23.6
Lorries and vans 470,965 112,941 65,630 100,320 749,856 5,030,927 14.9
Industrial tractors 16,667 3,558 5,239 3,731 29,195 235,511 12.4
Mopeds 168,919 42,347 17,460 36,957 265,683 1,908,492 13.9
Others 103,601 20,295 19,339 19,722 162,957 982,560 16.6
Total 3,906,801 702,860 377,799 665,629 5,653,089 36,673,695 15.4
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: September 23, 2021.

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 "..".