Bhabua 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 Bhabua plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bhabua was at its lowest in 1991-2005, 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, Bhabua's incremental SNDi rose from 2.83 to 3.2 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bhabua ranked 25th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 470th 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?

• Munshir Hat, Bangladesh
• Guanare, Venezuela
• Kaiyuan, China
• Balasore, India
• Hejian, China
• Heidelberg, Germany

In new street additions, Bhabua built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Munshir Hat fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Balasore built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Bhabua became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards, while Munshir Hat fluctuated in connectivity and Balasore became progressively more disconnected. Notably, Bhabua had a more sprawly network than Balasore in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.