Buxar 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 Buxar plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Buxar 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, Buxar's incremental SNDi rose from 5.71 to 10.78 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Buxar ranked 191st out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1545th 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?

• Dudahi, India
• Babruysk, Belarus
• Tilburg, Netherlands
• Xilinhot, China
• Buldhana, India
• Ruzhou, China

In new street additions, Buxar built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Dudahi built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Xilinhot built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Buxar became progressively more disconnected, while Dudahi became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Xilinhot grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Buxar and Dudahi have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.