thorough understanding of the present frameworks and methods and in order to meet statutory written description enablement and best mode requirements however it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that the present frameworks and methods may be practiced without the specific exemplary details in other instances well known features are omitted or simplified to clarify the description of the exemplary implementations of the present framework and methods and to thereby better explain the present framework and methods furthermore for ease of understanding certain method steps are delineated as separate steps however these separately delineated steps should not be construed as necessarily order dependent in their performance a framework is provided for evaluating transportation schedules at stations of a transportation system for example the framework evaluates train schedules of the transportation system the transportation system for example may be referred to as a metro system having different train lines or metro lines with stations the metro system for example is a metro system of an area of interest such as a city other of interests may also be useful for example the areas of interest may be larger or smaller than a city such areas of interest may include for example a city and its surrounding areas the framework simulates passenger flow under various conditions such as weather time as well as events parameters may be altered to generate a different or new passenger flow the framework simulates trains according to a schedule based on a given passenger flow the schedule may be a currently used schedule in other cases the schedule may be a different schedule such.