Sasni 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 Sasni plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sasni 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, Sasni's incremental SNDi rose from 3.34 to 3.62 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sasni ranked 94th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 637th 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?

• Palm Coast, United States
• Neumünster, Germany
• Yihuang, China
• Sagasi-Deybuk, Russia
• Érd, Hungary
• Galikash, Iran

While Palm Coast and Sagasi-Deybuk both built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, Sasni built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full network, Sasni became progressively more disconnected, while Palm Coast became progressively more connected and Sagasi-Deybuk became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Sasni and Palm Coast have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.