About this Dataset

Private Road Vehicles - Cities And FUAs

This dataset provides statistics on passenger private road motor vehicles by type of engine, in FUAs and Cities. A road motor vehicle is defined here as a vehicle other than a motorcycle, intended for the carriage of passengers and designed to seat no more than nine persons including the driver. The term passenger car therefore covers micro-cars (do not need a permit to be driven), taxis and hired passenger cars, provided that they have fewer than ten seats. This category may also include pick-ups.

Defining FUAs and cities

The OECD, in cooperation with the EU, has developed a harmonised definition of functional urban areas (FUAs) to capture the economic and functional reach of cities based on daily commuting patterns (OECD, 2012). FUAs consist of:

A city – defined by urban centres in the degree of urbanisation, adapted to the closest local administrative units to define a city.
A commuting zone – including all local areas where at least 15% of employed residents work in the city.

The delineation process includes:

Assigning municipalities surrounded by a single FUA to that FUA.
Excluding non-contiguous municipalities.

The definition identifies 1 285 FUAs and 1 402 cities in all OECD member countries except Costa Rica and three accession countries.

Cite this dataset

OECD Regions, cities and local areas database (Private road vehicles - Cities and FUAs), http://oe.cd/geostats

Further information

For questions and/or comments, please email CitiesStat@oecd.org

Tables

Observations

@oecd.oecd_cfe_eds_dsd_fua_soc_df_veh_v1_0.observations

168.76 kB
33,861 rows
10 columns

CREATE TABLE observations (
  "dataflow" VARCHAR,
  "ref_area" VARCHAR,
  "freq" VARCHAR,
  "measure" VARCHAR,
  "unit_measure" VARCHAR,
  "time_period" BIGINT,
  "obs_value" BIGINT,
  "obs_status" VARCHAR,
  "unit_mult" BIGINT,
  "decimals" BIGINT
);