Bhinmal 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 Bhinmal plotted against Rajasthan and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bhinmal followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Rajasthan which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bhinmal's incremental SNDi fell from 3.21 to 2.83 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bhinmal ranked 62nd out of 95 cities in Rajasthan and 626th 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?

• Rahad al Bardi, Sudan
• Shuangluan, China
• Nandura, India
• Sarapul, Russia
• Shuifu, China
• Cosenza, Italy

While Rahad al Bardi and Sarapul both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Bhinmal fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Rahad al Bardi and Sarapul both became progressively more disconnected, while Bhinmal became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Notably, Bhinmal had a more sprawly network than Rahad al Bardi in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.