Registration of vehicles. By type
Barcelona | Girona | Lleida | Tarragona | Catalonia | Spain | % Cat./Spa. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cars | 172,005 | 22,929 | 11,445 | 24,031 | 230,410 | 1,633,806 | 14.1 |
Buses | 520 | 98 | 31 | 53 | 702 | 4,216 | 16.7 |
Motorcycles (1) | 48,472 | 7,065 | 2,081 | 5,127 | 62,745 | 285,633 | 22.0 |
Trucks and vans | 43,787 | 7,674 | 3,350 | 7,115 | 61,926 | 396,370 | 15.6 |
Industrial tractors | 1,726 | 563 | 612 | 466 | 3,367 | 23,180 | 14.5 |
Others | 1,383 | 173 | 106 | 131 | 1,793 | 6,896 | 26.0 |
Total | 267,893 | 38,502 | 17,625 | 36,923 | 360,943 | 2,350,101 | 15.4 |
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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