Benipur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Benipur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Benipur plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Benipur 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, Benipur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.32 to 3.41 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Benipur ranked 24th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 469th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.41
- Rank in India
- 369th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 27th of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.0
- Rank in India
- 469th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 24th of 264
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Bukittinggi, Indonesia
- Kazipur, Bangladesh
- Hai'an, China
- Graz, Austria
- A Coruña, Spain
- Gola Gokarannath, India
In new street additions, Benipur and Bukittinggi both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Graz fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.