Title: Registration vehicles for the Island of Mauritius Description: The data shows Number of vehicles registered for the Island of Mauritius. Data refer to all vehicles registered at the National Land Transport Authority. The classification of vehicles used in this report, follows the definition given in Section 4 of the Road Traffic Act of 1962 and subsequent amended Act No. 27 of 2012. Source: https://statsmauritius.govmu.org/Pages/Statistics/ESI/Transport/RT_RTA_Yr21.aspx Tags/Topics: transport, lorry, vehicles, registration, car, taxi, bus Note: 1.Pedal cycles are excluded. 2.Vehicles includes Government vehicles. 3.Double cap pickup is a new category of vehicle defined in Road Traffic Act as amended by Act No. 27 of 2012. Prior to the year 2013 'double cab pickup' was included in 'dual purpose vehicle' 4.in the source file value for cars include taxi as well, howereve in the wrangled dataset it has been broken down into 2 different type for ease of use. 5.Vehicles include: (a)motor vehicles, that is, power-driven vehicles normally used for carrying persons or goods by road or for drawing vehicles used for carrying persons or goods. Examples are car, dual purpose vehicle, heavy motor car, motor cycle, lorry, van, bus, and tractor; (b)non-motorised vehicles, for example trailer. 6.Definition of some types of vehicles according to the Road Traffic Act 1962. (a)Motor cycle -A motor cycle is a mechanically propelled vehicle, other than an autocycle or a vehicle classified as an invalid carriage, with not more than four wheels and whose unladen weight does not exceed 400 kilograms. (b)Auto cycle - An autocycle is a two wheeled motor vehicle, with or without pedals, whose engine capacity does not exceed 50 cubic centimetres. (c)Heavy motor car - A heavy motor car is a vehicle of the bus type designed to carry passengers but not for hire or reward. (d)Dual purpose vehicle - A dual purpose vehicle is essentially a car but it is so designed to be capable of carrying a certain load of goods. (e)Double cab pickup - Double cab pickup means a motor vehicle which has – ( i ) a front passenger cabin which contain 2 rows of seats and is capable of seating a maximum of 4 persons excluding the driver, ( ii ) at least 2 doors capable of being opened separately; and ( iii ) an open pickup area behind the passenger cabin. Uploaded and converted to CSV by: NCB Uploaded on: September 2022 License: Creative Common License 4.0 Note: The following attributions will have to be adopted by the users of the datasets under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: 1. Users reproducing the data without adaptation should include a source accreditation to the in the following manner: Source: 2. Users reproducing the data with adaptation should include a source accreditation to the in the following manner: Adapted from data from