Taubaté in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Taubate in context

2.43.244.8<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2.43.244.8<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
TaubateSao Paulo (Region)Brazil (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Taubaté plotted against São Paulo and Brazil. While São Paulo and Brazil both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Taubaté's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Taubaté's incremental SNDi rose from 3.36 to 4.65 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Taubaté ranked 53rd out of 76 cities in São Paulo and 249th out of 365 in Brazil as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
4.65
Rank in Brazil
300th of 365
Rank in São Paulo
60th of 76

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.81
Rank in Brazil
249th of 365
Rank in São Paulo
53rd of 76

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

2468<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2468<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
TaubatePort MoresbyTezpur

While Port Moresby and Tezpur both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Taubaté fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.