Brakpan in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Brakpan in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Brakpan plotted against Gauteng and South Africa. While Gauteng and South Africa both rose steadily, Brakpan's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Brakpan's incremental SNDi rose from 6.17 to 7.14 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Brakpan ranked 2nd out of 14 cities in Gauteng and 23rd out of 81 in South Africa as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 7.14
- Rank in South Africa
- 76th of 81
- Rank in Gauteng
- 13th of 14
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.84
- Rank in South Africa
- 23rd of 81
- Rank in Gauteng
- 2nd of 14
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Ekerö, Sweden
- Siniloan, Philippines
- Chharodi, India
- Holo, Nigeria
- Mbala, Zambia
- Tengréla, Côte d'Ivoire
In new street additions, Brakpan and Holo both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Ekerö built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Brakpan had a more sprawly network than Holo in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.