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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2021
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,435,851 424,871 235,863 427,627 3,524,212 24,940,969 14.1
Buses 6,298 1,059 511 1,234 9,102 64,447 14.1
Motorcycles 682,422 102,712 34,919 81,436 901,489 3,866,220 23.3
Lorries and vans 456,216 112,543 65,556 100,028 734,343 5,050,416 14.5
Industrial tractors 16,733 3,673 5,644 3,778 29,828 238,456 12.5
Mopeds 163,956 40,782 17,064 36,041 257,843 1,868,056 13.8
Others 105,935 21,367 20,012 20,480 167,794 1,018,300 16.5
Total 3,867,411 707,007 379,569 670,624 5,624,611 37,046,864 15.2
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: September 22, 2022.

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 "..".