Sahabad 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 Sahabad plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sahabad followed a zig-zag trend, 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, Sahabad's incremental SNDi rose from 1.51 to 5.99 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sahabad ranked 282nd out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1813th 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?

• Taozhuang, China
• Dayangshu, China
• Paithan, India
• Huntington Station, United States
• Chefchaouen, Morocco
• Dongguang, China

In new street additions, Sahabad fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Taozhuang built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Huntington Station fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Sahabad fluctuated in connectivity, while Taozhuang became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Huntington Station became progressively more disconnected. Sahabad and Taozhuang have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.