Bharatpur 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 Bharatpur plotted against Rajasthan and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Bharatpur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.38 to 4.43 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bharatpur ranked 61st out of 95 cities in Rajasthan and 621st 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?

• Mahilioŭ, Belarus
• Santa Marta, Colombia
• Deoghar, India
• Nadiad, India
• Sanhur, Egypt
• Sariwon, North Korea

In new street additions, Bharatpur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Mahilioŭ built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Nadiad built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Bharatpur and Mahilioŭ both became progressively more disconnected, while Nadiad became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards.