Gangakhed 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 Gangakhed plotted against Maharashtra and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Gangakhed's incremental SNDi rose from 4.98 to 6.39 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gangakhed ranked 146th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 1563rd 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?

• Setúbal, Portugal
• Khash, Iran
• Pavlohrad, Ukraine
• Tosu, Japan
• Pandaveswar, India
• Ayang, South Korea

While Setúbal and Tosu both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Gangakhed fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Setúbal and Tosu both grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Gangakhed became progressively more disconnected. Gangakhed and Setúbal have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.