Tebing Tinggi 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 Tebing Tinggi plotted against Sumatera Utara and Indonesia. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Tebing Tinggi's incremental SNDi rose from 4.83 to 6.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tebing Tinggi ranked 5th out of 21 cities in Sumatera Utara and 169th 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?

• Togechane, Ethiopia
• Vidisha, India
• Banswara, India
• Cổ Lễ, Vietnam
• Biswan, India
• Dharmapuri, India

In new street additions, Tebing Tinggi built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Togechane built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Cổ Lễ built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Tebing Tinggi became progressively more disconnected, while Togechane grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Cổ Lễ became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards.