Rangkasbitung 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 Rangkasbitung plotted against Banten and Indonesia. The SNDi of new construction in Rangkasbitung peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Banten which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Indonesia which rose steadily. Most recently, Rangkasbitung's incremental SNDi fell from 6.11 to 5.85 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Rangkasbitung ranked 4th out of 7 cities in Banten and 320th out of 366 in Indonesia as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Villavicencio, Colombia
• Nagasaki, Japan
• Suizhou, China
• Tonghua, China
• Simferopol, Ukraine
• Khagaria, India

In new street additions, Rangkasbitung built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Villavicencio fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Tonghua built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Rangkasbitung and Villavicencio both became progressively more disconnected, while Tonghua grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Rangkasbitung and Tonghua have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.