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Authorisations for road transport. Provinces

Authorisations for road transport. Provinces 2010
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Passengers 13,726 1,480 791 1,386 17,383
Public vehicles < 9 seats 10,385 570 445 543 11,943
Private vehicles 41 14 11 10 76
Public service buses 3,300 896 335 833 5,364
Goods 47,693 8,223 7,695 8,178 71,789
Public service vehicles 35,662 5,484 5,570 6,133 52,849
Private service vehicles 12,031 2,739 2,125 2,045 18,940
Mixed 0 0 0 0 0
Public service vehicles 0 0 0 0 0
Private service vehicles 0 0 0 0 0
Total 61,419 9,703 8,486 9,564 89,172
Source: Ministry of Territory and Sustainability.
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: September 27, 2011.

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.