Muara Bungo 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 Muara Bungo plotted against Jambi and Indonesia. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Muara Bungo's incremental SNDi rose from 4.74 to 5.47 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Muara Bungo ranked 4th out of 6 cities in Jambi and 163rd 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?

• Diaobingshan, China
• Hengzhou, China
• Colonelganj, India
• Carora, Venezuela
• Bisalpur, India
• Margao, India

In new street additions, Muara Bungo built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Diaobingshan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Carora fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Muara Bungo and Carora both became progressively more disconnected, while Diaobingshan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Muara Bungo and Diaobingshan have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.