Runisaidpur 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 Runisaidpur plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Runisaidpur was at its lowest in 1976-1990, 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, Runisaidpur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.39 to 4.41 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Runisaidpur ranked 104th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1232nd 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?

• Uberlândia, Brazil
• Deyang, China
• Cilegon, Indonesia
• Huangdao District, China
• Jiujiang, China
• Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

While Uberlândia and Huangdao District both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Runisaidpur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Uberlândia and Huangdao District both became progressively more disconnected, while Runisaidpur became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Runisaidpur and Huangdao District have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.