Shahjahanpur 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 Shahjahanpur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Shahjahanpur 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, Shahjahanpur's incremental SNDi fell from 4.26 to 4.19 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Shahjahanpur ranked 119th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 849th 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?

• Aracaju, Brazil
• Namangan, Uzbekistan
• Ma'anshan, China
• Kolhapur, India
• Linfen, China
• Mudanjiang, China

In new street additions, Shahjahanpur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Aracaju built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Kolhapur built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Shahjahanpur and Aracaju have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.