Piduguralla in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Piduguralla plotted against Andhra Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Piduguralla 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, Piduguralla's incremental SNDi rose from 3.55 to 7.28 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Piduguralla ranked 48th out of 91 cities in Andhra Pradesh and 633rd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Longmont, United States
• Tissemsilt, Algeria
• Phú Mỹ, Vietnam
• 黄姑社区, China
• Haikou, China
• Bintulu, Malaysia

In new street additions, Piduguralla and 黄姑社区 both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Longmont built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Piduguralla and 黄姑社区 both became progressively more disconnected, while Longmont grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Piduguralla and Longmont have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.