Sakon Nakhon in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Sakon Nakhon in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sakon Nakhon plotted against Thailand. Both Sakon Nakhon and Thailand follow the same trend. Most recently, Sakon Nakhon's incremental SNDi rose from 4.26 to 6.75 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sakon Nakhon ranked 9th out of 54 in Thailand as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.75
- Rank in Thailand
- 32nd of 54
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.05
- Rank in Thailand
- 9th of 54
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Ajara, Nigeria
- Sant Vicenç dels Horts, Spain
- Mathia Alam, India
- Jhajjar, India
- Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
- Turakurgan, Uzbekistan
Sakon Nakhon, Ajara, and Jhajjar all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Notably, Sakon Nakhon had a more connected network than Jhajjar in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.