Goh 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 Goh plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Goh 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, Goh's incremental SNDi rose from 7.31 to 8.23 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Goh ranked 239th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1737th 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?

• Erenhot, China
• Achinsk, Russia
• Meishan, China
• Piranshahr, Iran
• Sainthia, India
• Mit Afia, Egypt

In new street additions, Goh and Piranshahr both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Erenhot built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Goh and Piranshahr both became progressively more disconnected, while Erenhot grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Goh and Erenhot have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.