Jalgaon Jamod 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 Jalgaon Jamod plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Jalgaon Jamod peaked in 1991-2005, 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, Jalgaon Jamod's incremental SNDi fell from 1.48 to 1.45 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jalgaon Jamod ranked 4th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 24th 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?

• Chakia, India
• Kladno, Czechia
• Yingjing, China
• Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Norristown, United States
• Hongya, China

In new street additions, Jalgaon Jamod built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Chakia fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Walikale built increasingly connected streets over time. For the full network, Jalgaon Jamod became progressively more disconnected, while Chakia fluctuated in connectivity and Walikale became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Jalgaon Jamod and Chakia have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.