Poso 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 Poso plotted against Sulawesi Tengah and Indonesia. While Sulawesi Tengah and Indonesia both rose steadily, Poso's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Poso's incremental SNDi rose from 6.6 to 6.75 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Poso ranked 5th out of 5 cities in Sulawesi Tengah and 315th 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?

• Kasongo-Lunda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Jharsuguda, India
• Payshanba, Uzbekistan
• Morin Dawa, China
• Pila, Poland
• Jinning, China

In new street additions, Poso built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Kasongo-Lunda fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Morin Dawa built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Poso became progressively more disconnected, while Kasongo-Lunda fluctuated in connectivity and Morin Dawa grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Poso had a more connected network than Kasongo-Lunda in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.