Gudiyatham in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Gudiyatham in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Gudiyatham plotted against Tamil Nadu and India. While Tamil Nadu and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Gudiyatham's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gudiyatham's incremental SNDi rose from 3.12 to 4.35 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gudiyatham ranked 41st out of 121 cities in Tamil Nadu and 741st out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.35
- Rank in India
- 733rd of 1868
- Rank in Tamil Nadu
- 40th of 121
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.47
- Rank in India
- 741st of 1868
- Rank in Tamil Nadu
- 41st of 121
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Koléa, Algeria
- Reno, United States
- Urbancrest, United States
- Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
- Ambikapur, India
In new street additions, Gudiyatham and Kindu both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Urbancrest built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Gudiyatham and Kindu both fluctuated in connectivity, while Urbancrest grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Gudiyatham and Urbancrest have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.