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Authorisations for road transport. Provinces

Authorisations for road transport. Provinces 2005
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Passengers 12,908 1,387 895 1,349 16,539
Public vehicles < 9 seats 10,049 627 466 663 11,805
Private vehicles 99 13 17 23 152
Public service buses 2,760 747 412 663 4,582
Goods 96,913 20,284 15,397 20,043 152,637
Public service vehicles 40,900 6,077 6,202 6,411 59,590
Private service vehicles 56,013 14,207 9,195 13,632 93,047
Mixed 356 14 1,361 18 1,749
Public service vehicles 0 0 2 0 2
Private service vehicles 356 14 1,359 18 1,747
Total 110,177 21,685 17,653 21,410 170,925
Source: Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques. Direcció General de Ports i Transports.
Notes:
Public vehicles < 9 seats: Includes funeral vehicles and public transport with less than nine seats (hire vans, taxis, etc).
Private vehicles: Includes health and funeral vehicles.
Public service vehicles: Includes heavy and light vehicles.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Authorisations for transport
Permits of an administrative nature to be able to travel by land and for reasons established by applicable legislation (school transport, dangerous substances, loaded vehicles and of a certain weight, etc.).
General goods
Goods packaged in load units (sacks, crates, boxes, etc.) or units that can be counted.

Methodological aspects

Data is provided for the regular transport of road travellers inside Catalonia. The Ministry of Territory and Sustainability obtained these figures directly from companies authorised to provide these services.

Data is offered on the transport of goods by road which was obtained from the Permanent survey on the transport of goods by road published by the Ministry of Public Works.

The section on urban public transport provides information on surface transport in the most populated cities of Catalonia, provided by the Ministry of Territory and Sustainability, and also underground metropolitan transport and urban railways. With the introduction of the integrated fare in 2001, the method for counting travellers in Barcelona has changed. Travellers are now counted as each journey registered on travel tickets and not the journeys sold for each type of ticket.

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 "..".