Madhubani in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Madhubani in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Madhubani plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Madhubani 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, Madhubani's incremental SNDi rose from 6.56 to 6.82 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Madhubani ranked 216th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1635th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.82
- Rank in India
- 1539th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 202nd of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.61
- Rank in India
- 1635th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 216th of 264
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Jaranwala, Pakistan
- Bo, Sierra Leone
- Yuanlin City, Taiwan
- Rudrapur, India
- Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
- Montería, Colombia
In new street additions, Madhubani and Rudrapur both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Jaranwala built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Madhubani and Jaranwala have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.