Hajipur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Hajipur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Hajipur plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Hajipur 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, Hajipur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.88 to 4.96 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Hajipur ranked 144th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1393rd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.96
- Rank in India
- 1023rd of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 118th of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.69
- Rank in India
- 1393rd of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 144th of 264
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Hajipur and Taipei both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Hyderabad fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.