Bokakhat in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Bokakhat in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Bokakhat plotted against Assam and India. While Assam and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Bokakhat's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bokakhat's incremental SNDi rose from 2.35 to 9.67 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bokakhat ranked 10th out of 67 cities in Assam and 226th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 9.67
- Rank in India
- 1737th of 1868
- Rank in Assam
- 47th of 67
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.42
- Rank in India
- 226th of 1868
- Rank in Assam
- 10th of 67
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Gabtali, Bangladesh
- Gadarpur, India
- Kakumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Oroquieta, Philippines
- Chimbay, Uzbekistan
- Muntok, Indonesia
In new street additions, Bokakhat fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Gabtali fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Oroquieta built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Bokakhat fluctuated in connectivity, while Gabtali became progressively more disconnected and Oroquieta became progressively more disconnected. Notably, Bokakhat had a more sprawly network than Gabtali in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.