Hyderabad in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Hyderabad in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Hyderabad plotted against Telangana and India. While Telangana and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Hyderabad's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Hyderabad's incremental SNDi rose from 3.46 to 4.18 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Hyderabad ranked 43rd out of 47 cities in Telangana and 764th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.18
- Rank in India
- 662nd of 1868
- Rank in Telangana
- 38th of 47
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.5
- Rank in India
- 764th of 1868
- Rank in Telangana
- 43rd of 47
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Hajipur, India
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Bogota, Colombia
- Bandung, Indonesia
- Tehran, Iran
- Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
In new street additions, Hyderabad and Bandung both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Hajipur built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.