Rourkela in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Rourkela in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Rourkela plotted against Odisha and India. While Odisha and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Rourkela's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Rourkela's incremental SNDi rose from 3.85 to 5.17 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Rourkela ranked 32nd out of 58 cities in Odisha and 942nd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.17
- Rank in India
- 1103rd of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 27th of 58
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.8
- Rank in India
- 942nd of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 32nd of 58
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Rourkela fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sorocaba built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Zagreb built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Rourkela and Sorocaba have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.