Tumsar 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 Tumsar plotted against Maharashtra and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Tumsar's incremental SNDi rose from 3.23 to 3.94 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tumsar ranked 94th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 696th 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?

• Bijali, India
• Kakata, Liberia
• Ratanpur, India
• Trilyee Family, Afghanistan
• Hanau, Germany
• Tiandong, China

In new street additions, Tumsar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Bijali built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Trilyee Family fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Tumsar and Bijali both became progressively more disconnected, while Trilyee Family became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Tumsar and Bijali have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.