Regarding the innovative Transport Simulator iTS MAIT, the creator, Joerg Schweizer, writes:

The free innovative Transport Simulator iTS MAIT (version 0.2) can simulate PRT networks. In particular, the features are:

* Easy to use transportation network editor: Track elements, vehicles and users can be selected from a library and placed and edited on the canvas with a graphical 2D network representation. Scanned maps of the target region can be used as background images. The number of different network components (track elements, vehicle-types, users) is still limited but is expected to grow rapidly. Anyway, new track elements can be easily created by copying and editing library text-files.

* Vehicle dynamics: The vehicles are using a vehicle-follower control algorithm. Speed-limits, maximum comfort/emergency/safety acceleration are respected. The control algorithm can be regarded as optimum asynchronous vehicle controller as vehicles, operating under nominal conditions operate exactly at the safety limits. All accelerations can be modified via GUI interfaces (control-panels).

* Passenger-behavior: Currently there is only one type of passenger:
the test-passenger. During editing passengers can be placed on dedicated locations, from where they makes one random trip after another. More realistic passengers will follow in the following minor versions.

* Logistics: Currently three management modules are implemented:
Passenger management, which is the only one that interfaces directly with passengers.
Carrier management, allocates a vehicle to the passenger management.
Track management, knows the network topology, instructs all diverge points to direct the vehicle on the fastest way to the desired destination.
Reads Origin-to-Destination Matrix from spreadsheet file.

* Analysis and validation: The current data about each module, i.e. vehicles, users, track, managements, can be displayed via control-panels. The data contains module-dependent information about performance, e.g. throughput, average speed, waiting times, traveled passenger km etc.

* Economics, eg initial investment, annual costs, trip costs, etc. and, importantly: Economy of scale. Costs, that depend on the quantity (or length) of modules can be edited in a quantity/prices table. The software will then automatically compute the price, dependent on the size of the network, number of vehicles, etc. Motion parameters (accelerations, line-speed, etc.)

* Export results: the most significant data of the current simulation, ie parameters, performance and costs, can be exported as a tab-separated text file, which is easily imported into all spread-sheet applications such as Excel, kspread, star-office or Gnumeric.