Saharanpur 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 Saharanpur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Saharanpur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.86 to 4.03 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Saharanpur ranked 130th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 920th 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?

• Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
• Minneapolis [Saint Paul], United States
• Mombasa, Kenya
• Tabriz, Iran
• Austin, United States
• Jalandhar, India

In new street additions, Saharanpur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Srinagar built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Tabriz built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Saharanpur and Srinagar both became progressively more disconnected, while Tabriz became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Saharanpur had a more connected network than Tabriz in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.