Birpur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Birpur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Birpur plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Birpur 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, Birpur's incremental SNDi rose from 6.32 to 6.44 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Birpur ranked 211th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1615th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.44
- Rank in India
- 1473rd of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 191st of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.5
- Rank in India
- 1615th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 211th of 264
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Ngandajika, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Valsad, India
- Jiangyou, China
- Novi Sad, Serbia
- Sikasso, Mali
- Eindhoven, Netherlands
In new street additions, Birpur and Novi Sad both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Ngandajika built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.