Sultan Bathery 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 Sultan Bathery plotted against Kerala and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sultan Bathery was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Kerala which was at its lowest in 1976-1990 and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Sultan Bathery's incremental SNDi rose from 4.96 to 6.68 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sultan Bathery ranked 40th out of 48 cities in Kerala and 1696th 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?

• Obihiro, Japan
• 新垵, China
• Battambang, Cambodia
• Lubuklinggau, Indonesia
• Wanning, China
• Valera, Venezuela

In new street additions, Sultan Bathery built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Obihiro built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Lubuklinggau fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. Looking at the full network, Obihiro and Lubuklinggau both became progressively more disconnected, while Sultan Bathery became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Sultan Bathery and Lubuklinggau have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.