Jaspur 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 Jaspur plotted against Uttarakhand and India. While Uttarakhand and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Jaspur's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Jaspur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.35 to 3.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jaspur ranked 3rd out of 20 cities in Uttarakhand and 772nd 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?

• Campierganj, India
• Kannad, India
• Itumbiara, Brazil
• Tongcheng, China
• Elgin, United States
• Markapur, India

In new street additions, Jaspur and Campierganj both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Tongcheng built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Jaspur became progressively more disconnected, while Campierganj fluctuated in connectivity and Tongcheng grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Jaspur had a more sprawly network than Campierganj in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.