Liangmatai in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Liangmatai in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Liangmatai plotted against Hebei and China. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Liangmatai's incremental SNDi rose from 1.75 to 1.86 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Liangmatai ranked 4th out of 120 cities in Hebei and 127th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.86
- Rank in China
- 187th of 1843
- Rank in Hebei
- 6th of 120
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.79
- Rank in China
- 127th of 1843
- Rank in Hebei
- 4th of 120
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Tancheng, China
- Heihe, China
- Tando Muhammad Khan, Pakistan
- Oghi, Pakistan
- Patherwa, India
- Batu Pahat, Malaysia
In new street additions, Liangmatai and Oghi both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Tancheng built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Liangmatai and Oghi both became progressively more disconnected, while Tancheng grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Liangmatai had a more sprawly network than Tancheng in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.