Khambhaliya 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 Khambhaliya plotted against Gujarat and India. The SNDi of new construction in Khambhaliya peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Gujarat which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Khambhaliya's incremental SNDi fell from 9.81 to 9.62 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Khambhaliya ranked 91st out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 1806th 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?

• Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Brazil
• Salto, Brazil
• Mogok, Myanmar
• Ipiales, Colombia
• Tunduma, Tanzania
• Tychy, Poland

While Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipiales both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, Khambhaliya built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved in new street additions. For the full network, Khambhaliya became progressively more disconnected, while Cabo de Santo Agostinho grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Ipiales grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Khambhaliya and Cabo de Santo Agostinho have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.