Toledo 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 Toledo plotted against Cebu and Philippines. While Cebu and Philippines both rose steadily, Toledo's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Toledo's incremental SNDi rose from 4.95 to 6.4 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Toledo ranked 1st out of 2 cities in Cebu and 62nd out of 114 in Philippines as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Akhisar, Turkey
• Bodhan, India
• Irba, Ethiopia
• Fuding, China
• Fukaya, Japan
• Pingtan, China

In new street additions, Toledo and Fuding both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Akhisar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Toledo and Fuding both became progressively more disconnected, while Akhisar fluctuated in connectivity. Toledo and Akhisar have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.