Nagpur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Nagpur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Nagpur plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Nagpur 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, Nagpur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.09 to 3.84 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nagpur ranked 69th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 415th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.84
- Rank in India
- 533rd of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 72nd of 157
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.86
- Rank in India
- 415th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 69th of 157
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
Nagpur, Caracas, and Montreal all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Notably, Nagpur had a more connected network than Montreal in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.