Arvi in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Arvi in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Arvi plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Arvi rose steadily, compared to Maharashtra which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Arvi's incremental SNDi rose from 3.27 to 3.65 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Arvi ranked 32nd out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 169th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.65
- Rank in India
- 450th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 60th of 157
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.25
- Rank in India
- 169th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 32nd of 157
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Bistrița, Romania
- Cedar Rapids, United States
- Umm Qasr, Iraq
- Prilep, North Macedonia
- Nuodong, China
- Fulda, Germany
In new street additions, Arvi and Bistrița both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Prilep fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Arvi and Bistrița have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.