Durgapur 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 Durgapur plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Durgapur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.83 to 5.19 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Durgapur ranked 33rd out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 952nd 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?

• Netanya, Israel
• Maharajganj, India
• Banjarbaru, Indonesia
• Tilburg, Netherlands
• Babruysk, Belarus
• Dudahi, India

In new street additions, Durgapur and Tilburg both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Netanya built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Durgapur and Tilburg both became progressively more disconnected, while Netanya grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Durgapur and Netanya have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.