Khairthal 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 Khairthal plotted against Rajasthan and India. The SNDi of new construction in Khairthal followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, 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, Khairthal's incremental SNDi fell from 3.17 to 3.06 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Khairthal ranked 17th out of 95 cities in Rajasthan and 165th 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?

• Kuchaman, India
• Loikaw, Myanmar
• Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya
• Dangla, Ethiopia
• Tiflet, Morocco
• Vitória de Santo Antão, Brazil

In new street additions, Khairthal fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Kuchaman fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Dangla built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Khairthal became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Kuchaman fluctuated in connectivity and Dangla became progressively more disconnected. Notably, Khairthal had a more sprawly network than Dangla in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.