Vandeikya Town 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 Vandeikya Town plotted against Benue and Nigeria. The SNDi of new construction in Vandeikya Town rose steadily, compared to Benue which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Nigeria which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Vandeikya Town's incremental SNDi rose from 3.07 to 4.8 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Vandeikya Town ranked 9th out of 13 cities in Benue and 200th out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Tiné-Djagaraba, Chad
• Pontinamallayyapalem, India
• Ritterhude, Germany
• Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka
• Salar, India
• Nimbahera, India

In new street additions, Vandeikya Town and Tiné-Djagaraba both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Wennappuwa built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Vandeikya Town and Tiné-Djagaraba both became progressively more disconnected, while Wennappuwa became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Vandeikya Town and Wennappuwa have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.