Chittaranjan 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 Chittaranjan plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chittaranjan rose steadily, compared to West Bengal which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Chittaranjan's incremental SNDi rose from 3.74 to 5.09 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chittaranjan ranked 23rd out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 746th 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?

• Rockford, United States
• Gujiao, China
• Ksar el-Kebir, Morocco
• Visnagar, India
• Akugba, Nigeria
• Ramanathapuram, India

In new street additions, Chittaranjan built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Rockford built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Visnagar built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Chittaranjan and Rockford both became progressively more disconnected, while Visnagar grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Chittaranjan and Rockford have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.