Pangandaran 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 Pangandaran plotted against Jawa Barat and Indonesia. The SNDi of new construction in Pangandaran was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Jawa Barat which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Indonesia which rose steadily. Most recently, Pangandaran's incremental SNDi rose from 3.88 to 4.54 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pangandaran ranked 3rd out of 38 cities in Jawa Barat and 84th 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?

• Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
• Qianshan, China
• Unjha, India
• Rafsanjan, Iran
• Qila Khudabadan, Pakistan
• Laiyuan, China

In new street additions, Pangandaran built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Chaguanas built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Rafsanjan built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Pangandaran became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Chaguanas became progressively more disconnected and Rafsanjan became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Pangandaran and Rafsanjan have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.