Kothagudem in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Kothagudem in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kothagudem plotted against Telangana and India. While Telangana and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Kothagudem's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Kothagudem's incremental SNDi rose from 3.09 to 4.23 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kothagudem ranked 30th out of 47 cities in Telangana and 507th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.23
- Rank in India
- 685th of 1868
- Rank in Telangana
- 39th of 47
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.08
- Rank in India
- 507th of 1868
- Rank in Telangana
- 30th of 47
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Palabuhanratu, Indonesia
- Hakimpara, Bangladesh
- Kragujevac, Serbia
- Idiofa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Seohara, India
- Bến Tre, Vietnam
In new street additions, Kothagudem and Palabuhanratu both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Idiofa built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Kothagudem and Idiofa both became progressively more disconnected, while Palabuhanratu fluctuated in connectivity. Kothagudem and Idiofa have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.