Khanakul in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Khanakul in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Khanakul plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Khanakul 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, Khanakul's incremental SNDi rose from 3.3 to 5.15 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Khanakul ranked 10th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 462nd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.15
- Rank in India
- 1095th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 31st of 140
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.98
- Rank in India
- 462nd of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 10th of 140
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Melitopol, Ukraine
- Khenchela, Algeria
- Jinzhou, China
- Gallarate, Italy
- Nabha, India
- Georgetown, Guyana
Khanakul, Melitopol, and Gallarate all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Notably, Khanakul had a more connected network than Melitopol in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.