Ailliet in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Ailliet in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Ailliet plotted against North Darfur and Sudan. While North Darfur and Sudan both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Ailliet's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Ailliet's incremental SNDi rose from 0.74 to 2.11 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ailliet ranked 5th out of 9 cities in North Darfur and 46th out of 78 in Sudan as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.11
- Rank in Sudan
- 51st of 78
- Rank in North Darfur
- 6th of 9
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.7
- Rank in Sudan
- 46th of 78
- Rank in North Darfur
- 5th of 9
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Furong, China
- Chirimiri, India
- Jinggu, China
- Hoveyzeh, Iran
- Mezhdurechensk, Russia
- Nowshera Virkan, Pakistan
In new street additions, Ailliet fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Furong built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Hoveyzeh built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Ailliet fluctuated in connectivity, while Furong grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Hoveyzeh became progressively more connected. Ailliet and Hoveyzeh have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.