Ranaghat 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 Ranaghat plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Ranaghat peaked in 1991-2005, 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, Ranaghat's incremental SNDi fell from 4.55 to 4.39 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ranaghat ranked 57th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1260th 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?

• Yinan, China
• Abha, Saudi Arabia
• Wanqingsha, China
• Maumere, Indonesia
• Tampere, Finland
• Araguaína, Brazil

While Yinan and Maumere both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Ranaghat built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Yinan and Maumere both became progressively more disconnected, while Ranaghat grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.