Bokaro 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 Bokaro plotted against Jharkhand and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bokaro rose steadily, compared to Jharkhand which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bokaro's incremental SNDi rose from 4.47 to 5.15 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bokaro ranked 13th out of 46 cities in Jharkhand and 586th 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?

• Nanyang, China
• Chenghai, China
• Sembawang, Singapore
• Warangal, India
• Karbala, Iraq
• Oslo, Norway

In new street additions, Bokaro and Warangal both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Nanyang fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Bokaro and Warangal have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.