Balrampur 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 Balrampur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Balrampur peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Uttar Pradesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Balrampur's incremental SNDi fell from 5.51 to 4.76 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Balrampur ranked 213th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1345th 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?

• Uruapan, México
• Golapganj, Bangladesh
• Tianmen, China
• Silvassa, India
• Guigang, China
• Mahishadal, India

In new street additions, Balrampur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Uruapan fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Silvassa built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Balrampur and Uruapan both became progressively more disconnected, while Silvassa became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Balrampur and Silvassa have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.