Piro in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Piro in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Piro plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Piro 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, Piro's incremental SNDi rose from 5.4 to 5.69 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Piro ranked 151st out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1423rd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.69
- Rank in India
- 1279th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 161st of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.8
- Rank in India
- 1423rd of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 151st of 264
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Map Ta Phut, Thailand
- Wurno, Nigeria
- Perus, Brazil
- Hanumangarh, India
- Shihali, Bangladesh
- Mukachevo, Ukraine
In new street additions, Piro and Map Ta Phut both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Hanumangarh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Piro and Map Ta Phut have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.