Shiheng in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Shiheng in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Shiheng plotted against Shandong and China. While Shandong and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Shiheng's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease. Most recently, Shiheng's incremental SNDi rose from 6.99 to 8.2 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Shiheng ranked 124th out of 124 cities in Shandong and 1841st out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 8.2
- Rank in China
- 1811th of 1843
- Rank in Shandong
- 124th of 124
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 9.31
- Rank in China
- 1841st of 1843
- Rank in Shandong
- 124th of 124
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
- Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Wulong, China
- Tunchang County, China
- Pelaihari, Indonesia
- Pach Pakri, India
In new street additions, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Tunchang County both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Shiheng fluctuated in street-construction patterns. For the full network, Shiheng grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Boulogne-sur-Mer became progressively more disconnected and Tunchang County grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.