Fort Portal in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Fort Portal plotted against Kabarole and Uganda. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Fort Portal's incremental SNDi rose from 4.25 to 8.31 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Fort Portal ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Kabarole and 21st out of 25 in Uganda as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Mechra Bel Ksiri, Morocco
• Nova Lima, Brazil
• Cobija, Bolivia
• Horizonte, Brazil
• Sikandar Pur, India
• Khand Khil, Afghanistan

In new street additions, Fort Portal built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Mechra Bel Ksiri fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Horizonte fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Fort Portal became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Mechra Bel Ksiri fluctuated in connectivity and Horizonte fluctuated in connectivity. Fort Portal and Mechra Bel Ksiri have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.