Touboro in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Touboro in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Touboro plotted against Nord and Cameroon. The SNDi of new construction in Touboro followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Nord which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Cameroon which rose steadily. Most recently, Touboro's incremental SNDi rose from 1.83 to 3.17 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Touboro ranked 4th out of 5 cities in Nord and 13th out of 44 in Cameroon as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.17
- Rank in Cameroon
- 15th of 44
- Rank in Nord
- 4th of 5
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.8
- Rank in Cameroon
- 13th of 44
- Rank in Nord
- 4th of 5
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Sunshine Coast, Australia
- Asendabo, Ethiopia
- Sumerpur, India
- Zárate, Argentina
- Vacaville, United States
- São Sebastião, Brazil
In new street additions, Touboro and Zárate both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sunshine Coast built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Sunshine Coast and Zárate both became progressively more disconnected, while Touboro fluctuated in connectivity. Touboro and Sunshine Coast have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.