Daraw in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Daraw in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Daraw plotted against Aswan and Egypt. While Aswan and Egypt both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Daraw's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Daraw's incremental SNDi rose from 4.46 to 5.65 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Daraw ranked 4th out of 4 cities in Aswan and 181st out of 213 in Egypt as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.65
- Rank in Egypt
- 161st of 213
- Rank in Aswan
- 4th of 4
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.25
- Rank in Egypt
- 181st of 213
- Rank in Aswan
- 4th of 4
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Meti Chafi / Tilk u Meti, Ethiopia
- Bikoro, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Agbani, Nigeria
- Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada
- Navkent, Uzbekistan
- Axial City, Sudan
In new street additions, Daraw and Meti Chafi / Tilk u Meti both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Vaudreuil-Dorion built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Daraw and Meti Chafi / Tilk u Meti both fluctuated in connectivity, while Vaudreuil-Dorion became progressively more disconnected.