Paithan 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 Paithan plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Paithan peaked in 1976-1990, 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, Paithan's incremental SNDi fell from 2.24 to 0.61 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Paithan ranked 18th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 116th 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?

• Burton Latimer, United Kingdom
• Al Tallin, Egypt
• Shikrapur, India
• Dayangshu, China
• Taozhuang, China
• Sahabad, India

In new street additions, Paithan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Burton Latimer built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Dayangshu fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. Looking at the full network, Burton Latimer and Dayangshu both became progressively more disconnected, while Paithan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Paithan had a more sprawly network than Burton Latimer in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.