Huating in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Huating in context

2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
HuatingGansu (Region)China (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Huating plotted against Gansu and China. While Gansu and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Huating's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Huating's incremental SNDi rose from 1.87 to 2.44 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Huating ranked 2nd out of 29 cities in Gansu and 418th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
2.44
Rank in China
479th of 1843
Rank in Gansu
3rd of 29

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.27
Rank in China
418th of 1843
Rank in Gansu
2nd of 29

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

What about similarly populated cities?

2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
HuatingSerraKandiaro

In new street additions, Huating and Serra both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Kandiaro built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Huating fluctuated in connectivity, while Serra became progressively more disconnected and Kandiaro grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.