Fujairah 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 Fujairah plotted against United Arab Emirates. The SNDi of new construction in Fujairah peaked in 1991-2005, while United Arab Emirates rose steadily. Most recently, Fujairah's incremental SNDi fell from 2.03 to 1.45 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Fujairah ranked 3rd 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?

• Beiguan, China
• Siguatepeque, Honduras
• Itajubá, Brazil
• Kandukur, India
• Akçakale, Turkey
• Taitung, Taiwan

While Beiguan and Kandukur both built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, Fujairah built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved in new street additions. For the full network, Fujairah grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Beiguan became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Kandukur became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Notably, Fujairah had a more sprawly network than Beiguan in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.