Muara Enim 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 Enim plotted against Sumatera Selatan and Indonesia. While Sumatera Selatan and Indonesia both rose steadily, Muara Enim's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Muara Enim's incremental SNDi rose from 5.15 to 7.28 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Muara Enim ranked 10th out of 11 cities in Sumatera Selatan and 289th 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?

• Khordha, India
• Tual, Indonesia
• Wangkui, China
• Jiaoling, China
• Luliang, China
• Odanthurai, India

In new street additions, Muara Enim and Jiaoling both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Khordha built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Muara Enim and Jiaoling both became progressively more disconnected, while Khordha became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Muara Enim and Khordha have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.