Jalna in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Jalna in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Jalna plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Jalna 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, Jalna's incremental SNDi rose from 3.38 to 4.06 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jalna ranked 90th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 670th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.06
- Rank in India
- 613th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 82nd of 157
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.36
- Rank in India
- 670th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 90th of 157
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Luhansk, Ukraine
- Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Laiwu, China
- Skopje, North Macedonia
- Palakkad, India
- Cheonan-si, South Korea
Jalna, Luhansk, and Skopje all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Jalna and Luhansk have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.