Araria 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 Araria plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Araria peaked in 1976-1990, compared to Bihar which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Araria's incremental SNDi fell from 5.0 to 4.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Araria ranked 189th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1535th 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?

• Sandakan, Malaysia
• Sanya, China
• Stockton, United States
• Lalpur, Bangladesh
• Tver, Russia
• Ogbomosho, Nigeria

While Sandakan and Lalpur both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Araria built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved in new street additions. For the full network, Araria grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Sandakan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Lalpur became progressively more disconnected. Notably, Araria had a more sprawly network than Sandakan in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.