Network Analysis with Fastest Route Seems to be Incorporating Extra Stops
Hi all,
I'm noticing looking through the output dataset for a fastest route problem that it seems to be adding in stops. I don't know how this would be happening, as I've set each route name to go from client location to provider location (with no additional stops in between). Moreover, it's odd that all the route_names have the same stop count: 4 in the first dataset and 16 in the second. Any idea what's going on? There are more observations in the second fastest route problem I ran, but it still should just be a client traveling to a provider. Oddly, it does seem like distances and times are much longer in the second dataset, so it might make sense that it is running it as stopping at 16 points; I'm just not sure how it would be calculating this, or what's going on, since I never put in multiple stops (maybe it's looking at client_ids that repeat), but still, there wouldn't be the same (16) for each client, so even that seems a little whack. Any idea what is going on here? I'm running this from python and can provide the code if that helps. I've provided the input data frame which is then converted to a feature layer. I just wait until pulling it into ESRI as a feature layer to name the columns: it's only the first two columns and the x, y that are being used.
