Meerut in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Meerut in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Meerut plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Meerut rose steadily, compared to Uttar Pradesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Meerut's incremental SNDi rose from 3.8 to 4.78 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Meerut ranked 109th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 785th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.78
- Rank in India
- 932nd of 1868
- Rank in Uttar Pradesh
- 171st of 291
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.54
- Rank in India
- 785th of 1868
- Rank in Uttar Pradesh
- 109th of 291
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Rotterdam [The Hague], Netherlands
- Vadodara, India
- Belém, Brazil
- Goiânia, Brazil
- Makassar, Indonesia
- San José, Costa Rica
In new street additions, Meerut and Goiânia both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Rotterdam [The Hague] built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Meerut and Rotterdam [The Hague] have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.