title: Network analysis and adjacency matrices
body: <p>I want to try and create a network for several hundred shapefiles that consist of polylines. The polylines are snapped to each other and consistent. Then I want to create an adjacency matrix for this network.</p>
  
  <p>What is the best way of doing this? I know how to do it on an individual basis by clicking through options within <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcCatalog" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ArcCatalog</a>, but I want to try and explore how to automate this. </p>
  
  <p>I do have some VBA that I previously downloaded that creates an adjacency matrix once I have made the network, but I can only run that once the network is loaded in to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcMap" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ArcMap</a>, with the layers in a specific order.</p>
  
  <p>I appreciate any suggestion or advice about how to do this, in any language. I know this is quite a program specific question; and I have asked it on the ESRI forum too, but my previous questions did not results in an answer that enabled me to achieve this so I thought I would also ask it here.</p>