Puerto Cabello in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Puerto Cabello in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Puerto Cabello plotted against Carabobo and Venezuela. The SNDi of new construction in Puerto Cabello rose steadily, compared to Carabobo which rose steadily and Venezuela which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Puerto Cabello's incremental SNDi rose from 4.9 to 5.37 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Puerto Cabello ranked 2nd out of 2 cities in Carabobo and 47th out of 70 in Venezuela as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.37
- Rank in Venezuela
- 42nd of 70
- Rank in Carabobo
- 1st of 2
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.27
- Rank in Venezuela
- 47th of 70
- Rank in Carabobo
- 2nd of 2
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Puerto Cabello built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Hihya built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Biysk fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.