Bhawanipatna in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Bhawanipatna in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Bhawanipatna plotted against Odisha and India. While Odisha and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Bhawanipatna's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bhawanipatna's incremental SNDi rose from 4.57 to 5.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bhawanipatna ranked 31st out of 58 cities in Odisha and 918th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.74
- Rank in India
- 1296th of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 34th of 58
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.76
- Rank in India
- 918th of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 31st of 58
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Sheyang, China
- Ambo, Ethiopia
- Dolatabad, Iran
- Atbara, Sudan
- Ijagbo Offa, Nigeria
- San Luis Río Colorado, México
In new street additions, Bhawanipatna fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sheyang built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Atbara built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Bhawanipatna and Sheyang have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.