Salha in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Salha in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Salha plotted against Bihar and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Salha's incremental SNDi rose from 3.9 to 3.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Salha ranked 78th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1084th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.92
- Rank in India
- 571st of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 47th of 264
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.02
- Rank in India
- 1084th of 1868
- Rank in Bihar
- 78th of 264
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Unna, Germany
- Weihe, China
- Kirovo-Chepetsk, Russia
- Mengshan, China
- Opobo, Nigeria
- Wettingen, Switzerland
While Unna and Mengshan both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Salha fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full network, Salha grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Unna became progressively more disconnected and Mengshan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Salha and Mengshan have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.