Dabhoi 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 Dabhoi plotted against Gujarat and India. The SNDi of new construction in Dabhoi peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Gujarat which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Dabhoi's incremental SNDi fell from 4.04 to 1.34 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dabhoi ranked 44th out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 852nd 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?

• Al ‘Azīzīyah, Iraq
• Kafr al Bazat, Egypt
• Дунай, Russia
• Aketi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Kiffa, Mauritania
• Tekkali, India

In new street additions, Dabhoi and Al ‘Azīzīyah both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Aketi fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Dabhoi grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Al ‘Azīzīyah became progressively more disconnected and Aketi fluctuated in connectivity. Dabhoi and Al ‘Azīzīyah have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.