Surgut in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Surgut in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Surgut plotted against Khanty-Mansiy and Russia. While Khanty-Mansiy and Russia both rose steadily, Surgut's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Surgut's incremental SNDi rose from 2.63 to 4.11 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Surgut ranked 1st out of 5 cities in Khanty-Mansiy and 51st out of 252 in Russia as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.11
- Rank in Russia
- 175th of 252
- Rank in Khanty-Mansiy
- 3rd of 5
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.91
- Rank in Russia
- 51st of 252
- Rank in Khanty-Mansiy
- 1st of 5
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Kyabé, Chad
- Youssoufia, Morocco
- Katen Bala, Pakistan
- Raisen, India
- Wudi, China
- Karangampel, Indonesia
In new street additions, Surgut built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Kyabé fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Raisen fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Surgut became progressively more disconnected, while Kyabé fluctuated in connectivity and Raisen fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Surgut had a more connected network than Kyabé in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.