Bà Rịa 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 Bà Rịa plotted against Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu and Vietnam. The SNDi of new construction in Bà Rịa peaked in 1976-1990, compared to Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Vietnam which rose steadily. Most recently, Bà Rịa's incremental SNDi fell from 3.21 to 3.19 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bà Rịa ranked 2nd out of 4 cities in Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu and 17th out of 126 in Vietnam as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Dilling, Sudan
• Shifang, China
• Mohammadabad, India
• Tala, Egypt
• Waingapu, Indonesia
• Poços de Caldas, Brazil

In new street additions, Bà Rịa built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Dilling fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Tala built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Bà Rịa and Dilling both became progressively more disconnected, while Tala became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Bà Rịa and Tala have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.