Nakhon Si Thammarat in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Nakhon Si Thammarat in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Nakhon Si Thammarat plotted against Thailand. Both Nakhon Si Thammarat and Thailand follow the same trend. Most recently, Nakhon Si Thammarat's incremental SNDi rose from 5.49 to 6.65 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nakhon Si Thammarat ranked 23rd out of 54 in Thailand as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.65
- Rank in Thailand
- 27th of 54
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.83
- Rank in Thailand
- 23rd of 54
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Ghafurov, Tajikistan
- Lijiang, China
- Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan
- Pandharpur, India
- Jagdalpur, India
- Faridpur, India
In new street additions, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Pandharpur both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Ghafurov built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Pandharpur both became progressively more disconnected, while Ghafurov grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Nakhon Si Thammarat had a more connected network than Ghafurov in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.