Vijayawada in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Vijayawada in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Vijayawada plotted against Andhra Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Vijayawada 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, Vijayawada's incremental SNDi rose from 3.85 to 5.17 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Vijayawada ranked 60th out of 91 cities in Andhra Pradesh and 826th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.17
- Rank in India
- 1102nd of 1868
- Rank in Andhra Pradesh
- 70th of 91
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.61
- Rank in India
- 826th of 1868
- Rank in Andhra Pradesh
- 60th of 91
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Vijayawada built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Vasai-Virar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Brussels built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Vijayawada and Brussels have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.