Kuantan in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Kuantan in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kuantan plotted against Pahang and Malaysia. While Pahang and Malaysia both rose steadily, Kuantan's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Kuantan's incremental SNDi rose from 3.18 to 4.03 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kuantan ranked 1st out of 2 cities in Pahang and 3rd out of 43 in Malaysia as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.03
- Rank in Malaysia
- 7th of 43
- Rank in Pahang
- 1st of 2
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.06
- Rank in Malaysia
- 3rd of 43
- Rank in Pahang
- 1st of 2
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Kuantan and Galați both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Bielefeld fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.