Padang Sidempuan 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 Padang Sidempuan plotted against Sumatera Utara and Indonesia. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Padang Sidempuan's incremental SNDi rose from 6.22 to 6.98 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Padang Sidempuan ranked 13th out of 21 cities in Sumatera Utara and 258th 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?

• Chitradurga, India
• Isparta, Turkey
• Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
• Gadag-Betageri, India
• Xingyang, China
• Kaithal, India

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