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Recently, India overtook China to become the world's most populous country. A larger part of the Indian population living in small to medium and large towns and cities have been facing serious problems of traffic congestion and vehicular transportation in urban areas. Consequently, urban road and street networks have occupied a core position in the functioning of cities. Therefore, assessment of the topological patterns of road infrastructure is crucial for improving the performance of transportation since the spatial pattern of the current road networks have greatly impacted the urban mobility. This paper attempts to analyze the topological patterns of road networks of small and medium-sized Indian cities in terms of connectivity and coverage measures using graph theory. Cities have been prioritized with respect to population ranging from 20,000 to 0.5 million. As a result, 505 such cities were selected in this study …