Sarai Mir 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 Sarai Mir plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sarai Mir peaked in 1991-2005, 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, Sarai Mir's incremental SNDi fell from 5.48 to 4.98 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sarai Mir ranked 235th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1481st 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?

• Lubutu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Francistown, Botswana
• Skardu, Azad Kashmir
• Mafara, Nigeria
• Tenggarong, Indonesia
• Novocherkassk, Russia

In new street additions, Sarai Mir and Mafara both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Lubutu built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Sarai Mir grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Lubutu became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Mafara became progressively more disconnected.