Podgorica in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Podgorica in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Podgorica plotted against Montenegro. Both Podgorica and Montenegro follow the same trend. Most recently, Podgorica's incremental SNDi rose from 5.35 to 5.42 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Podgorica ranked 1st out of 2 in Montenegro as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.42
- Rank in Montenegro
- 2nd of 2
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.0
- Rank in Montenegro
- 1st of 2
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Gloucester, United Kingdom
- Ghinda, Eritrea
- Aurangabad, India
- Jajpur, India
- Yongchun, China
- Léogâne, Haiti
In new street additions, Podgorica and Jajpur both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Gloucester built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Podgorica and Jajpur both became progressively more disconnected, while Gloucester grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Podgorica had a more connected network than Gloucester in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.