Paonta Sahib 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 Paonta Sahib plotted against Himachal Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Paonta Sahib rose steadily, compared to Himachal Pradesh which was at its lowest in 1976-1990 and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Paonta Sahib's incremental SNDi rose from 5.5 to 6.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Paonta Sahib ranked 3rd out of 6 cities in Himachal Pradesh and 1573rd 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?

• Nueva Loja, Ecuador
• Duaca, Venezuela
• Leninogorsk, Russia
• 盐官古城, China
• Jakhim, India
• Kalamazoo, United States

In new street additions, Paonta Sahib built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Nueva Loja fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and 盐官古城 built increasingly connected streets over time. For the full network, Paonta Sahib became progressively more disconnected, while Nueva Loja grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and 盐官古城 became progressively more connected. Notably, Paonta Sahib had a more connected network than 盐官古城 in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.