Pleiku in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Pleiku in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Pleiku plotted against Gia Lai and Vietnam. The SNDi of new construction in Pleiku followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Gia Lai which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Vietnam which rose steadily. Most recently, Pleiku's incremental SNDi rose from 4.08 to 4.7 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pleiku ranked 2nd out of 3 cities in Gia Lai and 51st out of 126 in Vietnam as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.7
- Rank in Vietnam
- 63rd of 126
- Rank in Gia Lai
- 1st of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.12
- Rank in Vietnam
- 51st of 126
- Rank in Gia Lai
- 2nd of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Puli Khumri, Afghanistan
- Cixian, China
- Saghatta, Bangladesh
- Matsumoto, Japan
- Dinhata, India
- Al Qusiya, Egypt
In new street additions, Pleiku and Puli Khumri both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Matsumoto built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Pleiku and Puli Khumri have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.