Patran in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Patran in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Patran plotted against Punjab and India. The SNDi of new construction in Patran rose steadily, compared to Punjab which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Patran's incremental SNDi rose from 6.98 to 10.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Patran ranked 41st out of 41 cities in Punjab and 1751st out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 10.25
- Rank in India
- 1748th of 1868
- Rank in Punjab
- 41st of 41
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 6.57
- Rank in India
- 1751st of 1868
- Rank in Punjab
- 41st of 41
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Barra do Garças, Brazil
- Kuthalam, India
- Hinche, Haiti
- Bhadra, India
- Candeias, Brazil
- Xiaodong, China
In new street additions, Patran and Barra do Garças both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Bhadra fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Patran and Barra do Garças have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.