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Event behaviors

  • What is event behavior?
  • Types of event behavior rules
  • Cartographic Realignment behavior
  • Factors to consider
  • Application of event behavior
  • Configuration of event behavior rules

ArcGIS Roads and Highways keeps event measures in alignment with LRS route edits. You can configure event behavior rules to define how event measures are updated for each type of route edit.

What is event behavior?

Events are located along a route in a linear referencing system (LRS) using a location reference, such as a measure distance down a route. Because location is based on the route length, changes in the length have a direct impact on how events will be located and how they are rendered on a map. The impact that changes to the route have on events is called event behavior.

Roads and Highways supports multiple ways to locate your event on a route, such as measure on route, reference offset from intersection, stations, feature offsets, offset from another event, or x,y coordinates.

The following diagram is an example of a route being realigned. This route has a line event and a point event located along the route. After a route is edited, the events are updated using the event behavior rules.

Example of event behavior

Types of event behavior rules

When an LRS route is edited, behavior rules are applied to the events. By providing the event behavior rules, you decide what the event does when the route changes: preserve location, preserve measure, or maintain referent location.

Event behavior rules Description

Stay Put

Preserves the geographic location of the event; measures may change.

Move

Preserves the measures of the event; geographic location may change.

Retire

Preserves both measure and geographic location; event is retired.

Snap

Preserves the location of an event by snapping the event to a concurrent route; measures may change.

Cover

Changes both measure and geographic location to make the event go across the entire route.

This behavior can be configured only for edits that extend or realign routes.

Note:

Learn more about event behavior for extending routes with the cover option and event behavior for realigning routes with the cover option.

Stay Put

The Stay Put rule preserves the geographic location of the event. When the route is modified, events retain their x,y coordinates. This means event measures will change whenever it is necessary to retain the location.

With Stay Put event behavior, events downstream of an edit section retain their location. The line events that intersect the edit section will be split into two or more events, so the portion unaffected by the route edit will retain its location. Events that are completely contained in the edited section are retired.

Stay Put event behavior

In the above example, the upstream events that did not intersect the realignment did not change, where possible. The line event that spans the realignment section gets split into two parts, and the original event is retired. The point event that falls inside the realignment section is retired. The downstream events retain the x,y location.

The table below shows how the Stay Put event behavior updates events for each edit activity.

ActivityEvents upstreamEvents in edited sectionEvents downstream

Extend Route

No action.

Shape regenerated.

Measures adjusted to retain x,y if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Calibrate Route, Reverse Route

Measures adjusted to retain x,y.

Measures adjusted to retain x,y.

Measures adjusted to retain x,y.

Realign Route, Realign Overlapping Route

Up to closest upstream calibration point; measures adjusted to retain x,y if needed.

Retire event; line events crossing edit section will be split and the original event is retired.

Measures adjusted to retain x,y if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Retire Route, Reassign Route

No action.

Retire event; line events crossing edit section will be split and the original event is retired.

Measures adjusted to retain x,y if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Move

The Move rule preserves the measures of the event. When a route is modified, events retain their measure values. This means x,y coordinates may change.

For example, with Move event behavior, events downstream of a realignment retain their measure, although the location along the route changes.

Move event behavior

In the above example, events in the realignment section and downstream keep their measures and their shape is updated per the new route shape.

The table below shows how the Move event behavior updates events for each edit activity.

ActivityEvents upstreamEvents in edited sectionEvents downstream

Extend Route

No action.

Shape regenerated.

Shape regenerated if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Calibrate Route, Reverse Route

Shape regenerated if needed.

Shape regenerated.

Shape regenerated if needed.

Realign Route, Realign Overlapping Route, Retire Route, or Reassign Route

Shape regenerated if needed.

Shape regenerated.

Shape regenerated if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Retire

The Retire event behavior preserves both measure and location. When you modify a route, the system flags the event as retired by changing its To Date value to the effective date of the edit if the event is in an impacted region of the route.

The event measures do not change, but the event will no longer be displayed in the current alignment of the highway. If you want to see the event, you must set the event layer's temporal view date (TVD) to a date and time prior to the edit.

Retire event behavior

In the above example, the upstream events retained their measure and location, where possible. The line events that fall in the realignment section completely or partially are retired. The point event that falls inside the realignment section is retired. The downstream events are retired as well.

The table below shows how the Retire event behavior updates events for each edit activity.

ActivityEvents upstreamEvents in edited sectionEvents downstream

Extend Route

No action.

Retire event.

Retire event if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Calibrate Route, Reverse Route

Retire event.

Retire event.

Retire event.

Realign Route, Realign Overlapping Route

Up to closest upstream calibration point; retire event if needed.

Retire event; line events crossing edit section will not be split.

Retire event if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Retire Route, Reassign Route

No action.

Retire event; line events crossing edit section will not be split.

Retire event if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Snap

The Snap event behavior preserves the location of an event by snapping the event to a concurrent route. When the route being edited is concurrent with another route, you may want the event to snap to the concurrent route that is not being edited. You can choose the dominant route during the edit, or you can automate it by setting up the route dominance rule.

This rule is applied only to Realign Concurrent or Overlapping Route, Reassign Route, and Retire Route edit activity.

Snap event behavior

In the above example, there is a concurrent route named B. The line event that spans the realignment section is split into three parts. The part that falls exactly in the realigned section is snapped to the concurrent route B. The point event that falls inside the realignment section is snapped to the concurrent route B. Events that are snapped retain their locations, but get updated route references and measures. The last portion of the diagram shows that route A and route B are conceptually separated, to demonstrate how events are snapped to the concurrent route.

Events or event portions that were outside the realignment retain their locations, as they did with the Stay Put event behavior rule.

The table below shows how the Snap event behavior updates events for each edit activity.

ActivityEvents upstreamEvents in edited sectionEvents downstream

Realign Overlapping Route

Up to closest upstream calibration point; measures adjusted to retain x,y if needed.

Geographic location maintained. If there is no concurrent route, the event will stay put. If there are concurrent routes, the event will be migrated to the dominant route. Line events crossing the edit section will be split.

Measures adjusted to retain x,y if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Retire Route

No action.

Geographic location maintained. If there is no concurrent route, the event will stay put. If there are concurrent routes, the event will be migrated to the dominant route. Line events crossing the edit section will be split.

Measures adjusted to retain x,y if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Reassign Route

No action.

Geographic location maintained. If there is no concurrent route, the event will stay put. If there are concurrent routes, the event will be migrated to the reassigned route. Line events crossing the edit section will be split.

Measures adjusted to retain x,y if recalibrate downstream is checked.

Cartographic Realignment behavior

When performing a cartographic realignment, the two options are Honor Route Measure or Honor Referent Location. These rules apply only to cartographic realignment edit activity.

Note:

If the Cartographic Realignment option on the LRS Network Properties dialog box is checked, the route will be recalibrated pursuant to the new length of the route after the cartographic realignment and event behaviors are applied. If the option is unchecked, only the cartographic realignment will be applied, which means that the route, as well as events and event shapes, will not be recalibrated and the measures will remain the same as they were before the cartographic realignment.

Event behavior rules Description

Honor Route Measure

Preserves the measure of the event or changes the measure proportionally to the route measure change.

Honor Referent Location

Maintains the referent location of the event.

Honor Route Measure

The Honor Route Measure rule either preserves the measure of the event or changes the measure proportionally to the route measure change. This is dependent on the Update route length and recalibrate route based on change in geometry length property on the LRS Network Properties dialog box.

Learn more about creating an LRS Network

If this property is selected, the event measure changes proportionally to the measure change of the route, and the event shape will be updated to align with the route.

Honor Route Measure

In the above example, since you have the Update route length property selected, the line event's To measure is updated proportionally, and the point event's measure is also updated proportionally. The event's shape is updated to align with the route. This also applies the Calibrate Route event behavior to the section of the route that is recalibrated.

If this property is not selected, the event will preserve its measure, and the event shape will be updated to align with route.

Honor Route Measure

In the above example, since you do not have the Update route length property selected, event shapes are updated to align with the route.

Honor Referent Location

The Honor Referent Location rule maintains the referent location of the event. This rule is applied only when you have an event configured to store referent locations.

Note:

If the referent is not valid or not present during event behavior processing, the event measures are used to regenerate the event shape.

Honor Referent Location

In the above example, the line event's From measure is referenced from Intersection 1, and its To measure is referenced from Intersection 2. The point event is referenced from Intersection 2. After cartographic realignment, the event measure is updated to maintain the referent location, and the event's shape is updated to align with the route.

Factors to consider

In addition to the above event behavior rules, consider the following additional factors to understand event behavior.

Do not apply measure behaviors

During route editing, you can choose to not apply any of the above event behaviors.

Do not apply event measure behaviors

If this is chosen, none of the above behavior is applied, but event shapes are regenerated to align with the route.

You can also choose not to apply event behaviors when manually modifying calibration points. This option can be selected in the Advanced LRS Editing Options on the Roads And Highways Editing toolbar. If this option is chosen, none of the event behaviors are applied, but event shapes are regenerated to align with the route.

Recalibrate downstream

Route edits affect the calibration of the route, and during the edit activity, the Roads and Highways dialog box prompt you to recalibrate downstream.

Recalibrate Downstream

As shown in the above example, there are calibration points at measures 0, 50, and 80. You can choose to recalibrate downstream during realignment activity. This will update the calibration of the route after the calibration point at measure 50 until the end of the route.

Due to recalibration, the event behavior you set for Calibrate Route is applied to the recalibrated section.

Application of event behavior

Event layers are either internal, meaning they reside in the geodatabase that contains your LRS, or external, meaning they reside outside of the geodatabase that contains your LRS.

Learn more about event types

Internal events

Internal events can have event behavior applied after each edit or after a series of edits using the Apply Updates tool Apply Updates on the Roads And Highways Editing toolbar. If you do not use the Apply Updates tool and try to save the edits, event behavior is applied by Roads and Highways just before edits are saved. This is to make sure the events are always in alignment with route edits.

Note:
Invoke event behavior using the Apply Updates tool before you reconcile and post in the edit session.

External events

External events do not have event behavior applied during a route edit. You can apply event behavior to external events using the Relocate Events geoprocessing tool.

Configuration of event behavior rules

Event behavior is configured when you register events with the LRS Network. You can also reconfigure event behavior at any time by opening the event layer's properties.

During the process of registering events through the LRS event setup wizard, you can set event behavior rules for each type of activity applied to the route.

Note:

Event behavior rules are not applied to x and y offset events, offset from an event, and offset from a point feature class.

Configuring the event behavior rules

Learn more about registering an event in the LRS geodatabase and registering an external event source.

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