Neyveli Township 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 Neyveli Township plotted against Tamil Nadu and India. While Tamil Nadu and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Neyveli Township's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Neyveli Township's incremental SNDi rose from 1.57 to 1.72 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Neyveli Township ranked 1st out of 121 cities in Tamil Nadu and 62nd 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?

• Mojoagung, Indonesia
• Jangaon, India
• Mineral Palace, United States
• New Fribourg, Brazil
• Nankou, China
• Gauriganj, India

In new street additions, Neyveli Township fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Mojoagung built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and New Fribourg built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Mojoagung and New Fribourg both became progressively more disconnected, while Neyveli Township fluctuated in connectivity.