Agboville in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Agboville in context

2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
AgbovilleLagunes (Region)Cote d'Ivoire (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Agboville plotted against Lagunes and Côte d'Ivoire. The SNDi of new construction in Agboville rose steadily, compared to Lagunes which rose steadily and Côte d'Ivoire which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Agboville's incremental SNDi rose from 3.27 to 5.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Agboville ranked 1st out of 3 cities in Lagunes and 28th out of 39 in Côte d'Ivoire as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
5.58
Rank in Côte d'Ivoire
37th of 39
Rank in Lagunes
3rd of 3

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.89
Rank in Côte d'Ivoire
28th of 39
Rank in Lagunes
1st of 3

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

What about similarly populated cities?

123456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
123456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
AgbovilleRajampetSherwood Park

In new street additions, Agboville built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Rajampet fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Sherwood Park built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Agboville became progressively more disconnected, while Rajampet fluctuated in connectivity and Sherwood Park grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Agboville and Sherwood Park have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.