Boconó 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 Boconó plotted against Trujillo and Venezuela. While Trujillo and Venezuela both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Boconó's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Boconó's incremental SNDi rose from 5.44 to 6.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Boconó ranked 1st out of 2 cities in Trujillo and 57th out of 70 in Venezuela as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Bordj Menaiel, Algeria
• Umbulrejo, Indonesia
• Juticalpa, Honduras
• Sarıağaş, Kazakhstan
• Kipese, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Retalhuleu, Guatemala

In new street additions, Boconó fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Bordj Menaiel built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Sarıağaş built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Boconó became progressively more disconnected, while Bordj Menaiel became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Sarıağaş grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Boconó and Bordj Menaiel have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.