Bathinda 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 Bathinda plotted against Punjab and India. While Punjab and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Bathinda's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bathinda's incremental SNDi rose from 2.93 to 4.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bathinda ranked 9th out of 41 cities in Punjab and 500th 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?

• Kushtia, Bangladesh
• Mannheim, Germany
• Nganjuk, Indonesia
• Xinyang, China
• Shahkot, Pakistan
• Giridih, India

In new street additions, Bathinda fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Kushtia built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Xinyang built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Bathinda fluctuated in connectivity, while Kushtia became progressively more disconnected and Xinyang became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Bathinda and Xinyang have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.