“Framework” indicates that it's neither complete nor do we exercise all of its potential functionality
Similar prior works:
SimCity: spent lots of time researching; ingrained with few common modes of transit, no vehicle persistence; difficult to collect full data
PRT analysis:
John Lees-Miller 2003: SATURN (Simulation and Analysis Tools for Urban automated Rapid transit Networks): high school student's Java simulation
SimPyTran 2004: continuous time comparison of station throughput of PRT vs. light rail
Mass transit: (Jayakrishna's students)
Cristian Cortes 2003 HCPPT
Louis Pages MTVRP 2006: paper in NAS's Transportation Research Board; similar formulation