I realise this question has been asked numerous times but I haven't found the answer I'm looking for so here it goes. I have bus routes and bus stops snapped to them. I want to add a wait time penalty for transferring buses. How do I add this penalty? I do not have any transfer edges, I have over 100 routes and 4000 stops with many routes overlapping. I am a beginner so feel free to dumb down your answers as much as possible. I think I know what I need to do but I don't know how to do it. I've seen suggestions of adding turn features, and adding evaluators but I'm not sure of how to do add a penalty with no transfer edges.
- Thanks for the reply, and that tool is useful for the connectors. But I have a problem with transferring between bus routes. My file for bus stops is just one file with all of the bus stops, however the bus stops are not associated with a route. I have each bus route as an individual feature. How do I create a transfer penalty between bus routes, transferring at a bus stop? Would saving the file each time for each bus route, then merge the file and connect the lines work? Bear in mind there are over 100 routes and over 4000 stops.
- Hi.
Let's clarify what it is you are trying to do:
- Each bus route (which may run along the same stretch of road) is its own feature in a feature class.
- There are 4000 stops, some of which are shared by different bus routes.
- When a stop is shared by multiple bus routes, you want to incur a transfer penalty when a passenger uses the stop to go from one route to another. You do NOT want this transfer penalty to be incurred if they are staying on the same bus route.
- You are not concerned (at the moment) with connecting the bus stops/routes to the streets. Your primary concern is transferring from one route to another route at the same stop.
Is this correct?
If so, this is, unfortunately, sort of a hard thing to do. If you had the patience to digitize turns for all 4000 of your stops, you could model the behavior exactly the way you want it, but I realize that's not a good option.
Another idea is to put your bus routes at different heights in 3D space, creating a copy of each stop for each separate route. The stops could be connected to each other or to the same point on a street network via a line, and the delay could be imposed on the connector lines. This forum might give you some help with doing something like that: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/85181-Overlapping-Bus-routs - Hi,
Going 3d as morang suggests is the best option and the easiet option, not as much ditigization as you think. I did a small project for asian city and they later published some articles, i think also for egypt city also. i never had the time to google them.
go 3d ;) it will save you time for future projects.
regards,
if you export your data in transit format you can import in network dataset with this tool.
I use same logic and use evaluator in ags 10.1. Here you can see a simple live: http://sit.sistemigis.it/samples/transit/