Sarapul 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 Sarapul plotted against Udmurt and Russia. The SNDi of new construction in Sarapul peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Udmurt which rose steadily and Russia which rose steadily. Most recently, Sarapul's incremental SNDi fell from 4.52 to 4.3 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sarapul ranked 4th out of 4 cities in Udmurt and 164th out of 252 in Russia as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Bhinmal, India
• Rahad al Bardi, Sudan
• Shuangluan, China
• Shuifu, China
• Cosenza, Italy
• Jaén, Spain

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