Dhamdaha in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Dhamdaha in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Dhamdaha plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Dhamdaha 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, Dhamdaha's incremental SNDi rose from 4.06 to 4.66 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dhamdaha ranked 73rd out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1070th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.66
- Rank in India
- 874th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 102nd of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.99
- Rank in India
- 1070th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 73rd of 264
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Dengkou, China
- Móng Cái, Vietnam
- Alangulam, India
- Cosmópolis, Brazil
- Mahalapye, Botswana
- Yanshan, China
In new street additions, Dhamdaha and Cosmópolis both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Dengkou built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Dhamdaha and Cosmópolis both became progressively more disconnected, while Dengkou grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.