Badulla in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Badulla in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Badulla plotted against Sri Lanka. Both Badulla and Sri Lanka follow the same trend. Most recently, Badulla's incremental SNDi rose from 8.11 to 10.79 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Badulla ranked 21st out of 21 in Sri Lanka as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 10.79
- Rank in Sri Lanka
- 21st of 21
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 7.41
- Rank in Sri Lanka
- 21st of 21
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Jakhania, India
- Sahuayo de Morelos, México
- Matamèye, Niger
- Banethu, India
- Chirchiq, Uzbekistan
- Fangxian, China
In new street additions, Badulla built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Jakhania fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Banethu built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Badulla became progressively more disconnected, while Jakhania fluctuated in connectivity and Banethu became progressively more connected. Badulla and Jakhania have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.