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Archive:Road freight vehicle statistics - lorries, road tractors and trailers

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Data sources and availability

Data source
The Eurostat/ITF/UNECE Common Questionnaire on Inland Transport.

Definitions
All definitions used are taken from the Eurostat/UNECE/ITF Illustrated Glossary for Transport Statistics, currently in its 4th edition. This glossary can be found on Eurostat’s website.

  • Goods road vehicle
Road vehicle designed, exclusively or primarily, to carry goods. Included are:
    • Light goods road vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of not more than 3 500 kg, designed exclusively or primarily, to carry goods, e.g. vans and pick-ups
    • Heavy goods road vehicles with a gross vehicle weight above 3 500 kg, designed, exclusively or primarily, to carry goods
    • Road tractors
    • Agricultural tractors permitted to use roads open to public traffic.
  • Goods road motor vehicle
Any single road motor vehicle designed to carry goods (e.g. a lorry), or any coupled combination of road vehicles designed to carry goods, (i.e. lorry with trailer(s), or road tractor with semi-trailer and with or without trailer).
  • Lorry / truck
Rigid road motor vehicle designed, exclusively or primarily, to carry goods.
  • Road tractor
Road motor vehicle designed, exclusively or primarily, to haul other road vehicles which are not power-driven (mainly semi-trailers). (Agricultural tractors are excluded.)
  • Trailer
Goods road vehicle designed to be hauled by a road motor vehicle (excludes agricultural trailers and caravans.)
  • Semi-trailer
Goods road vehicle with no front axle designed in such way that part of the vehicle and a substantial part of its loaded weight rests on a road tractor.
  • Road train
Goods road motor vehicle coupled to a trailer. Articulated vehicle (road tractor coupled to a semi-trailer) with a further trailer attached is included.
  • Load capacity
Maximum weight of goods declared permissible by the competent authority of the country of registration of the vehicle.
  • Gross vehicle weight (Legally permissible maximum weight)
Total of the weight of the vehicle (or combination of vehicles) including its load when stationary and ready for the road declared permissible by the competent authority of the country of registration. This includes the weight of the driver and the maximum number of persons permitted to be carried.
  • Unladen vehicle weight
Weight of vehicle (or combination of vehicles) excluding its load when stationary and ready for the road. The unladen weight may include driver and fuel, dependent on national practice.
  • Cylinder capacity
The cylinder capacity of the engine as certified by the competent authority of the country of registration.
  • Motor energy
The principal type of motor energy used by the vehicle as certified by the competent authority of the country of registration. For hybrid or dual-fuelled vehicles adapted for using more than one type of motor energy (e.g. LPG and petrol, or electricity and diesel, etc.), the principal type of motor energy should be, where possible, an alternative fuel.
  • Alternative fuel
A type of motor energy other than the conventional fuels petrol and diesel. Alternative fuels include electricity, LPG, natural gas (NGL or CNG), alcohols, mixtures of alcohols with other fuels, hydrogen, biofuels (such as biodiesel), etc. (This list is not exhaustive.) Alternative fuels do not include unleaded petrol, reformulated petrol or city (low-sulphur) diesel.

Context

The Common Questionnaire on Inland Transport is a joint project of Eurostat, the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The data are provided on a voluntary basis by a large number of countries, both within and outside the European Union. Data is collected from reliable sources, but data collection methodologies are not harmonised at EU level. Comparability across countries is restricted as the classifications used in the national vehicle registers are not harmonised. Vehicles registers may exclude taxis, pick-up and vans, and may also exclude very old vehicles. This article covers data provided by the EU member states, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries and EU enlargement countries.

See also

Further Eurostat information

Data visualisation

Publications

Main tables

Road transport (t_road)

Database

Road transport (road)
Road transport equipment - Stock of vehicles (road_eqs)
Road transport equipment - New registration of vehicles (road_eqr)

Dedicated section

Methodology / Metadata

Source data for tables, figures and maps (MS Excel)

Other information

External links

Notes

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