Aïn El Aouda 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 Aïn El Aouda plotted against Rabat - Salé - Zemmour - Zaer and Morocco. The SNDi of new construction in Aïn El Aouda followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Rabat - Salé - Zemmour - Zaer which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Morocco which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Aïn El Aouda's incremental SNDi fell from 1.53 to 1.49 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Aïn El Aouda ranked 3rd out of 5 cities in Rabat - Salé - Zemmour - Zaer and 8th out of 72 in Morocco as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Fumin, China
• El Hamma, Tunisia
• Binzhou, China
• Almoloya de Juárez, México
• Buhalpur, India
• Nasugbu, Philippines

In new street additions, Aïn El Aouda fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Fumin built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Almoloya de Juárez built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Looking at the full network, Fumin and Almoloya de Juárez both became progressively more disconnected, while Aïn El Aouda fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Aïn El Aouda had a more sprawly network than Fumin in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.