Ternate 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 Ternate plotted against Maluku Utara and Indonesia. While Maluku Utara and Indonesia both rose steadily, Ternate's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Ternate's incremental SNDi rose from 5.71 to 6.43 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ternate ranked 4th out of 4 cities in Maluku Utara and 265th 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?

• Kovilpatti, India
• La Ceiba, Honduras
• Meili, China
• Bandikui, India
• Rehovot, Israel
• Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

While Kovilpatti and Bandikui both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Ternate built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full network, Ternate became progressively more disconnected, while Kovilpatti grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Bandikui grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Ternate and Kovilpatti have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.