Sihor 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 Sihor plotted against Gujarat and India. While Gujarat and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Sihor's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Sihor's incremental SNDi rose from 2.08 to 8.54 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sihor ranked 26th out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 434th 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?

• Odintsovo, Russia
• Phetchaburi, Thailand
• Teluk Intan, Malaysia
• Salepur, India
• Santa Bárbara del Zulia, Venezuela
• Lorena, Brazil

While Odintsovo and Salepur both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Sihor fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Odintsovo and Salepur both became progressively more disconnected, while Sihor fluctuated in connectivity. Sihor and Odintsovo have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.