Pakaria in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Pakaria in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Pakaria plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Pakaria peaked in 1991-2005, 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, Pakaria's incremental SNDi fell from 5.49 to 5.05 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pakaria ranked 156th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1449th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.05
- Rank in India
- 1061st of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 121st of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.89
- Rank in India
- 1449th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 156th 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, Pakaria built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Abu Huminus built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Hejiang built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Pakaria and Abu Huminus both became progressively more disconnected, while Hejiang became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Pakaria and Hejiang have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.