Bhutan in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Bhutan in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Bhutan plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bhutan followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, 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, Bhutan's incremental SNDi fell from 5.08 to 2.17 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bhutan ranked 28th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 533rd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.17
- Rank in India
- 125th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 13th of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.12
- Rank in India
- 533rd of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 28th of 264
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Bandar Ganaveh, Iran
- Barogram, Bangladesh
- San Juan de los Lagos, México
- Binzhou, China
- El Hamma, Tunisia
- Fumin, China
In new street additions, Bhutan fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Bandar Ganaveh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Binzhou built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Bhutan fluctuated in connectivity, while Bandar Ganaveh fluctuated in connectivity and Binzhou grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Bhutan had a more sprawly network than Binzhou in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.