Suraimanpur 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 Suraimanpur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Suraimanpur was at its lowest 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, Suraimanpur's incremental SNDi rose from 1.34 to 3.03 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Suraimanpur ranked 28th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 130th 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?

• Luanchuan, China
• Meftah, Algeria
• Ali Sabieh, Djibouti
• Taikang, China
• Pingluo, China
• Erzincan, Turkey

In new street additions, Suraimanpur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Luanchuan built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Taikang fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Suraimanpur and Luanchuan both became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards, while Taikang became progressively more disconnected. Suraimanpur and Luanchuan have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.