Pune in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Pune in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Pune plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Pune 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, Pune's incremental SNDi rose from 4.73 to 5.83 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pune ranked 142nd out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 1383rd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.83
- Rank in India
- 1317th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 135th of 157
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.66
- Rank in India
- 1383rd of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 142nd 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, Pune and Riyadh both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Chongqing fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Pune and Riyadh both became progressively more disconnected, while Chongqing fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Pune had a more connected network than Chongqing in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.