Spatial Pattern of Road Transport Connectivity in Puncha Block, Puruliya District, West Bengal

Movement of man and material across spaces is accomplished through some definite channels oftransport network. These channels consist of nodes and routes connecting these nodes. On theefficiency and fluency of linkages between the places the advancement of a region depends. Thepresent paper is a humble submission to measure the connectivity pattern with the help ofcyclometic number, alpha, beta, gamma index and Aggregate Transportation Score. At the sametime it opts to explore the most vulnerable areas with regard to connectivity at Puncha Block ofPurulia District, one of the backward Districts of West Bengal. Most of the pockets of the Blockrepresent a very disappointing figure with respect to Connectivity measures. The areal networks arefound to be branching. For the upgradation of accessibility the existing tree sort of network shouldbe enhanced into a circuitry network implying maximum connections.