Qila Khudabadan 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 Qila Khudabadan plotted against Balochistan and Pakistan. While Balochistan and Pakistan both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Qila Khudabadan's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Qila Khudabadan's incremental SNDi rose from 4.92 to 7.67 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Qila Khudabadan ranked 19th out of 19 cities in Balochistan and 222nd out of 292 in Pakistan as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Rafsanjan, Iran
• Pangandaran, Indonesia
• Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
• Laiyuan, China
• Nusaybin, Turkey
• Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan

In new street additions, Qila Khudabadan fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Rafsanjan built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Laiyuan fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Qila Khudabadan became progressively more disconnected, while Rafsanjan became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Laiyuan became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Qila Khudabadan and Rafsanjan have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.