Registration of vehicles. By type
Barcelona | Girona | Lleida | Tarragona | Catalonia | Spain | % Cat./Spa. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cars | 199,948 | 25,357 | 12,066 | 26,156 | 263,527 | 1,676,707 | 15.7 |
Buses | 463 | 84 | 24 | 58 | 629 | 4,175 | 15.1 |
Motorcycles (1) | 42,540 | 6,063 | 1,565 | 4,249 | 54,417 | 220,422 | 24.7 |
Trucks and vans | 44,377 | 8,120 | 3,289 | 7,650 | 63,436 | 391,342 | 16.2 |
Industrial tractors | 1,679 | 473 | 469 | 353 | 2,974 | 21,327 | 13.9 |
Others | 1,041 | 172 | 65 | 138 | 1,416 | 5,617 | 25.2 |
Total | 290,048 | 40,269 | 17,478 | 38,604 | 386,399 | 2,319,590 | 16.7 |
Source: Directorate General of Traffic. | |||||||
Note: Motorbikes: are included three-wheelers and cars for the disabled. |
Last update: November 30, 2009.
Methodological note
This indicator is made using province-wide information on registrations of vehicles published by the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). Vehicles are classified in the following categories:
- Lorries and vans: Vehicles whose purpose is transport of goods (motorcycles with three wheels, weighing no less than 400 kg are excluded).
- 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.
- Private cars: Four-wheeled vehicle whose purpose is transportation of travellers, with a maximum capacity of nine people, including the driver.
- Motorcycle: 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.
- Industrial tractors: Vehicles capable of dragging a semi-trailer, without taking farming tractors into account.
- Others: Vehicles not included in the previous categories, excluding farming vehicles. Before 1998, trucks were included in this category.
The annual data are definitive.
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