Moirabari 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 Moirabari plotted against Assam and India. While Assam and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Moirabari's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Moirabari's incremental SNDi rose from 5.11 to 8.78 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Moirabari ranked 51st out of 67 cities in Assam and 1640th 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?

• Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
• Yuhu, China
• Vladivostok, Russia
• Jundiaí, Brazil
• Penza, Russia
• Zhanghua City, Taiwan

In new street additions, Moirabari fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sumgayit built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Jundiaí built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Moirabari became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards, while Sumgayit grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Jundiaí became progressively more disconnected. Moirabari and Sumgayit have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.