Haridwar in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Haridwar in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Haridwar plotted against Uttarakhand and India. The SNDi of new construction in Haridwar rose steadily, compared to Uttarakhand which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Haridwar's incremental SNDi rose from 4.5 to 4.68 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Haridwar ranked 8th out of 20 cities in Uttarakhand and 1229th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.68
- Rank in India
- 878th of 1868
- Rank in Uttarakhand
- 5th of 20
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.31
- Rank in India
- 1229th of 1868
- Rank in Uttarakhand
- 8th of 20
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Jamnagar, India
- Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Arusha, Tanzania
- Şanlıurfa, Turkey
- Liaoyang, China
- Yingkou, China
In new street additions, Haridwar and Jamnagar both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Şanlıurfa fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Haridwar and Jamnagar both became progressively more disconnected, while Şanlıurfa grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Haridwar and Şanlıurfa have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.