Saraburi in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Saraburi in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Saraburi plotted against Thailand. Both Saraburi and Thailand follow the same trend. Most recently, Saraburi's incremental SNDi rose from 6.93 to 8.63 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Saraburi ranked 51st out of 54 in Thailand as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 8.63
- Rank in Thailand
- 50th of 54
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 6.64
- Rank in Thailand
- 51st of 54
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Tatuí, Brazil
- Gadwal, India
- Imam Sahib, Afghanistan
- Kure, Japan
- Fethiye, Turkey
- Santiago, Philippines
In new street additions, Saraburi and Tatuí both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Kure built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Saraburi and Tatuí have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.