Nashik in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Nashik in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Nashik plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Nashik 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, Nashik's incremental SNDi rose from 3.04 to 3.51 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nashik ranked 78th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 535th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.51
- Rank in India
- 399th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 52nd of 157
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.12
- Rank in India
- 535th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 78th of 157
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Nashik and Ahwaz both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Luoyang built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Nashik had a more connected network than Ahwaz in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.