Vadodara 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 Vadodara plotted against Gujarat and India. The SNDi of new construction in Vadodara rose steadily, compared to Gujarat which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Vadodara's incremental SNDi rose from 4.22 to 5.53 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Vadodara ranked 65th out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 1111th 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?

• Belém, Brazil
• Ludhiana, India
• Harare, Zimbabwe
• Rotterdam [The Hague], Netherlands
• Meerut, India
• Goiânia, Brazil

In new street additions, Vadodara built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Belém fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Rotterdam [The Hague] built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Vadodara and Rotterdam [The Hague] have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.