Panchananpur 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 Panchananpur plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Panchananpur was at its lowest in 1976-1990, 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, Panchananpur's incremental SNDi rose from 7.12 to 7.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Panchananpur ranked 122nd out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1770th 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?

• Pinrang, Indonesia
• Jinxiang, China
• Mobile, United States
• Río Bravo, México
• Narwana, India
• Sinfra, Côte d'Ivoire

In new street additions, Panchananpur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Pinrang built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Río Bravo built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Pinrang and Río Bravo both became progressively more disconnected, while Panchananpur became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards.