Badarpur 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 Badarpur plotted against Assam and India. The SNDi of new construction in Badarpur peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Assam which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Badarpur's incremental SNDi fell from 9.42 to 9.32 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Badarpur ranked 61st out of 67 cities in Assam and 1811th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Linzhou, China
• Durgachak, India
• Xinhua, China
• Yuanjiang, China
• Chuadanga, Bangladesh
• Dourados, Brazil

In new street additions, Badarpur and Yuanjiang both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Linzhou built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Badarpur and Linzhou both became progressively more disconnected, while Yuanjiang grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.