@MelindaMorang,
Good morning and happy Friday. I have a very large regional GTFS file that I obtained directly from Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). It is the same GTFS file that runs their online trip planner. It combines all of the regional transit agencies into one large GTFS file.
I am attempting to create a transit coverage map for Montgomery County Maryland using the better bus buffers tool. This is actually a very important analyses as it is part of our transportation monitoring efforts. After 3.5 days of processing the "Preprocess Buffers" tool ended with an "Invalid Topology" error (see below). Could this be an issue of having run the process in a map with Maryland State Plane, but the GTFS station locations being represented in Lat/Long? Could it be a function of a station being located outside the extend of my network (I downloaded and processed OSM data for the entire Washington/Baltimore DC region so most stations should be covered)? I only need transit information for inside Montgomery County, so I was thinking of ways to trim the GTFS file so that it only contains stops in Montgomery County. Any advice on this potential strategy? Thanks for your help.
Step 1 - Preprocess Buffers
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Parameters
Output directory C:\Users\Russell.Provost\OneDrive - The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission\Data\2020MAR\Transit\GTFSForBetterBusBuffers
Name for output geodatabase (created when the tool is run) BetterBussBuffers
SQL database of preprocessed GTFS data C:\Users\Russell.Provost\OneDrive - The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission\Data\2020MAR\Transit\GTFSForBetterBusBuffers\BetterBusBuffers.sql
Network dataset C:\Users\Russell.Provost\OneDrive - The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission\Data\2020MAR\Transit\GTFSForBetterBusBuffers\Network.gdb\Network\TransitNetwork_ND
Impedance attribute (Choose one that works for pedestrians.) Length (Units: Miles)
Buffer size (in the same units as your impedance attribute) 0.25
Network restrictions (Choose ones appropriate for pedestrians.)
Polygon trim (in meters) (Enter -1 for no trim.) 20
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Start Time: Thursday, May 20, 2021 4:54:59 PM
Creating a feature class of GTFS stops...
Creating service areas around stops...
(This step will take a while for large networks.)
Reformatting polygons for further analysis...
(This step will take a while for large networks.)
Error post-processing polygons
Failed to create BetterBusBuffers polygons.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 484, in execute
File "C:\Users\Russell.Provost\OneDrive - The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission\Data\2020MAR\Transit\Tools\BetterBusBuffers_0.14.0.0\BBB_Polygons_Step1.py", line 133, in runTool
arcpy.management.FeatureToPolygon(polygons, FlatPolys, clusTol, "", dummypoints)
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\management.py", line 4057, in FeatureToPolygon
raise e
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\management.py", line 4054, in FeatureToPolygon
retval = convertArcObjectToPythonObject(gp.FeatureToPolygon_management(*gp_fixargs((in_features, out_feature_class, cluster_tolerance, attributes, label_features), True)))
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing\_base.py", line 512, in <lambda>
return lambda *args: val(*gp_fixargs(args, True))
arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: ERROR 160196: Invalid Topology
Failed to execute (FeatureToPolygon).
Failed to execute (BBBPolygons_PreprocessBuffers).
Failed at Monday, May 24, 2021 7:47:48 AM (Elapsed Time: 86 hours 52 minutes 47 seconds)
