Tieling in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Tieling in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Tieling plotted against Liaoning and China. The SNDi of new construction in Tieling rose steadily, compared to Liaoning which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Tieling's incremental SNDi rose from 4.66 to 9.81 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tieling ranked 60th out of 61 cities in Liaoning and 1705th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 9.81
- Rank in China
- 1828th of 1843
- Rank in Liaoning
- 61st of 61
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.83
- Rank in China
- 1705th of 1843
- Rank in Liaoning
- 60th of 61
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
Tieling, Al Qusiya, and Jhunjhunu all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network.