Sinkāt in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Sinkat in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sinkāt plotted against Red Sea and Sudan. While Red Sea and Sudan both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Sinkāt's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Sinkāt's incremental SNDi rose from 1.25 to 1.6 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sinkāt ranked 3rd out of 4 cities in Red Sea and 36th out of 78 in Sudan as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.6
- Rank in Sudan
- 31st of 78
- Rank in Red Sea
- 3rd of 4
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.52
- Rank in Sudan
- 36th of 78
- Rank in Red Sea
- 3rd of 4
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Yagoua, Cameroon
- Weixin, China
- Madhupur, India
- Hopkins Mill, United States
- Ikom, Nigeria
- Darmstadt, Germany
In new street additions, Sinkāt and Yagoua both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Hopkins Mill built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Sinkāt and Yagoua both fluctuated in connectivity, while Hopkins Mill became progressively more disconnected. Sinkāt and Yagoua have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.