Bakhtiyarpur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Bakhtiyarpur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Bakhtiyarpur plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bakhtiyarpur rose steadily, 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, Bakhtiyarpur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.54 to 4.6 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bakhtiyarpur ranked 121st out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1304th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.6
- Rank in India
- 849th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 95th of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.47
- Rank in India
- 1304th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 121st of 264
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
- Mianyang, China
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Antwerp, Belgium
- Sokoto, Nigeria
- Nyala, Sudan
In new street additions, Bakhtiyarpur and Antwerp both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Cagayan de Oro built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Bakhtiyarpur and Cagayan de Oro have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.