Sivasagar in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Sivasagar in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sivasagar plotted against Assam and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sivasagar rose steadily, compared to Assam which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Sivasagar's incremental SNDi rose from 6.08 to 6.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sivasagar ranked 42nd out of 67 cities in Assam and 1370th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.58
- Rank in India
- 1506th of 1868
- Rank in Assam
- 26th of 67
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.63
- Rank in India
- 1370th of 1868
- Rank in Assam
- 42nd of 67
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Cikijing, Indonesia
- Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Chirawa, India
- Kotkapura, India
- Pau, France
- Laem Chabang, Thailand
In new street additions, Sivasagar and Cikijing both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Kotkapura built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Sivasagar and Cikijing have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.