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Registration of vehicles. By type

Registration of vehicles. By type. Provinces 2021
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Cars 100,885 10,686 5,870 11,170 128,611 953,624 13.5
Buses 261 30 18 35 344 2,092 16.4
Motorcycles 33,558 4,036 1,155 3,041 41,790 173,435 24.1
Trucks and vans 15,830 2,119 1,674 1,788 21,411 168,824 12.7
Industrial tractors 671 398 756 251 2,076 17,345 12.0
Others 1,667 309 82 203 2,261 10,373 21.8
Total 152,872 17,578 9,555 16,488 196,493 1,325,693 14.8
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.

Last update: January 27, 2022.

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.