Halol 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 Halol plotted against Gujarat and India. While Gujarat and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Halol's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Halol's incremental SNDi rose from 3.25 to 4.67 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Halol ranked 49th out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 921st 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?

• Qu, China
• Abakan, Russia
• Lianyuan, China
• Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan
• Lijiang, China
• Ghafurov, Tajikistan

In new street additions, Halol fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Qu built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Lashkar Gah built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Halol fluctuated in connectivity, while Qu became progressively more disconnected and Lashkar Gah grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Halol and Lashkar Gah have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.