Chittoor in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Chittoor in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Chittoor plotted against Andhra Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chittoor rose steadily, compared to Andhra Pradesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Chittoor's incremental SNDi rose from 3.21 to 5.45 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chittoor ranked 46th out of 91 cities in Andhra Pradesh and 625th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.45
- Rank in India
- 1203rd of 1868
- Rank in Andhra Pradesh
- 72nd of 91
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.28
- Rank in India
- 625th of 1868
- Rank in Andhra Pradesh
- 46th of 91
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Angarsk, Russia
- Buta, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Pagadian, Philippines
- Dodolla, Ethiopia
- Sehore, India
- Quangang, China
In new street additions, Chittoor and Dodolla both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Angarsk fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Chittoor had a more connected network than Angarsk in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.