Gohana 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 Gohana plotted against Haryana and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gohana peaked in 1976-1990, compared to Haryana which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gohana's incremental SNDi fell from 3.09 to 3.03 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gohana ranked 16th out of 40 cities in Haryana and 502nd 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?

• Tianchang, China
• Kairana, India
• Ebolowa, Cameroon
• Salerno, Italy
• Acilia, Italy
• Musanze, Rwanda

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