Buhalpur 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 Buhalpur plotted against Odisha and India. The SNDi of new construction in Buhalpur was at its lowest in 1991-2005, compared to Odisha which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Buhalpur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.19 to 5.49 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Buhalpur ranked 47th out of 58 cities in Odisha and 1539th 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?

• Almoloya de Juárez, México
• Aïn El Aouda, Morocco
• Fumin, China
• Nasugbu, Philippines
• Alexandrov, Russia
• Binga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

While Almoloya de Juárez and Nasugbu both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, Buhalpur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. For the full network, Buhalpur became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards, while Almoloya de Juárez became progressively more disconnected and Nasugbu grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Buhalpur had a more sprawly network than Almoloya de Juárez in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.