Kahului 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 Kahului plotted against Hawaii and United States. While Hawaii and United States both peaked in 1991-2005, Kahului's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Kahului's incremental SNDi fell from 7.01 to 2.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kahului ranked 1st out of 4 cities in Hawaii and 266th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• 彭镇, China
• Roudan, Iran
• Nandagang Management Area, China
• Kakanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Lagarto, Brazil
• Rengat, Indonesia

In new street additions, Kahului built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while 彭镇 built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Kakanda fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Kahului grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while 彭镇 became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Kakanda became progressively more disconnected. Kahului and 彭镇 have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.