Al Ruways Industrial city 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 Al Ruways Industrial city plotted against Abu Dhabi and United Arab Emirates. The SNDi of new construction in Al Ruways Industrial city peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Abu Dhabi which peaked in 1991-2005 and United Arab Emirates which rose steadily. Most recently, Al Ruways Industrial city's incremental SNDi fell from 2.54 to 1.27 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Al Ruways Industrial city ranked 1st out of 9 cities in Abu Dhabi and 1st out of 15 in United Arab Emirates as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Bantengan, Indonesia
• Ain Defla, Algeria
• Pujiang, China
• Bút Sơn, Vietnam
• Kayalpattinam, India
• Larnaca, Cyprus

While Bantengan and Bút Sơn both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Al Ruways Industrial city built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Bantengan and Bút Sơn both became progressively more disconnected, while Al Ruways Industrial city grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.