Chopda 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 Chopda plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chopda followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, 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, Chopda's incremental SNDi fell from 1.83 to 1.46 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chopda ranked 13th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 91st 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?

• Ruwa, Zimbabwe
• Akhaura, Bangladesh
• Fengdu, China
• Livorno, Italy
• Gondal, India
• Severodvinsk, Russia

In new street additions, Chopda fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Ruwa built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Livorno built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Ruwa and Livorno both became progressively more disconnected, while Chopda became progressively more connected. Chopda and Ruwa have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.