Dhanbad in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Dhanbad in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Dhanbad plotted against Jharkhand and India. The SNDi of new construction in Dhanbad 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, Dhanbad's incremental SNDi rose from 5.2 to 5.31 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dhanbad ranked 36th out of 46 cities in Jharkhand and 1375th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.31
- Rank in India
- 1154th of 1868
- Rank in Jharkhand
- 26th of 46
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.63
- Rank in India
- 1375th of 1868
- Rank in Jharkhand
- 36th of 46
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Seattle, United States
- Zhuhai [Macau], China
- Minsk, Belarus
- Lomé, Togo
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Baku, Azerbaijan
In new street additions, Dhanbad built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Seattle built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Lomé fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Dhanbad and Seattle both became progressively more disconnected, while Lomé fluctuated in connectivity. Dhanbad and Seattle have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.