Chandi 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 Chandi plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chandi peaked in 1976-1990, 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, Chandi's incremental SNDi fell from 3.33 to 1.78 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chandi ranked 39th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 743rd 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?

• Kanth, India
• Jaisalmer, India
• Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela
• Ghosi, India
• Albany, United States
• Al-Qa'im, Iraq

While Kanth and Ghosi both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Chandi built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Kanth and Ghosi both became progressively more disconnected, while Chandi grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Chandi and Kanth have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.