I do not have first-hand experience, but SimCity has been used to dump real life data in it for modeling purposes and been found reasonably effective. I read th

I do not have first-hand experience, but SimCity has been used to dump real life data in it for modeling purposes and been found reasonably effective. I read this years ago. A quick Google turned up this article: http://chicago.curbed.com/2015/1/16/10001642/reallife-simcity-being-used-to-design-a-massive-development http://chicago.curbed.com/2015/1/16/10001642/reallife-simcit...