Murbad 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 Murbad plotted against Maharashtra and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Murbad's incremental SNDi rose from 5.85 to 8.09 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Murbad ranked 156th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 1710th 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?

• Le Mée-sur-Seine, France
• Tracy, United States
• Jena, Germany
• Periyakulam, India
• Tanjung, Indonesia
• La Rochelle, France

In new street additions, Murbad and Periyakulam both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Le Mée-sur-Seine built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Murbad became progressively more disconnected, while Le Mée-sur-Seine grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Periyakulam grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Murbad and Le Mée-sur-Seine have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.