Bishwanath Charaili 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 Bishwanath Charaili plotted against Assam and India. While Assam and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Bishwanath Charaili's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bishwanath Charaili's incremental SNDi rose from 2.02 to 4.59 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bishwanath Charaili ranked 7th out of 67 cities in Assam and 148th 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?

• Edirne, Turkey
• Ghakhar Mandi, Pakistan
• Mendi, Papua New Guinea
• Lahad Datu, Malaysia
• Likuni, Malawi
• Botucatu, Brazil

In new street additions, Bishwanath Charaili fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Edirne built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Lahad Datu built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Bishwanath Charaili fluctuated in connectivity, while Edirne became progressively more disconnected and Lahad Datu grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Bishwanath Charaili and Edirne have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.