Hi all.
As part of my final student project I'm making a coverage map of Vancouver's transit system (SkyTrain and buses included) through the Calculate Transit Service Frequency tool.
This tool requires a Network Dataset that I've carefully assembled from Vancouver's GTFS data (available here -- it's also in immaculate condition), using a premade template (with some minor modifications like a new travel mode for walking) that I got from the ArcGIS tutorial.
So far, every Network Analyst tool I've tested (e.g., service area, OD cost matrix) has worked great on this ND, including the aforementioned Calculate Transit Service Frequency tool using the settings transit stops, transit lines, and points of interest.
It's only when I try to use the "Areas" analysis type (to generate the aforementioned coverage map) that the tool just hangs. It gets stuck at "Solving Service Area Analysis" despite minimizing duration, units of travel time, and maximizing cell size (i.e., making it run as fast as possible).
While I have thought of some ways to circumvent using the "Areas" analysis type (e.g., doing a kernel density analysis with the resulting features from the "transit stops" analysis), I'd really like to generate this coverage map. If anyone has any pointers I'd love to hear it.
This is particularly confusing since I can individually run multiple service area analyses separately, so I see no reason why the Calculate Transit Service Frequency tool can't do the same.
N of transit stops = 8832
Streets layer source: OSM
P.S., I have looked up this issue everywhere and it seems I'm the only person so far to have had this tool hang on me like this! I've left it running for 48 hours on a lab computer only to come back to the tool still in process.