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The impact to transport academics will be to produce a co-ordinated, critical mass of European researchers who individually have the potential to carry out world leading research in ARTS, and collectively will make Europe a central stakeholder in this emerging key domain. Out of the COST community will emerge common frameworks for embedding autonomic properties, in particular common descriptors, interface languages, metrics and forms of analysis for ARTS technology.

The Action will have a significant impact on the field of autonomic systems in general, providing that area with an exemplar for use of autonomic ideas and techniques in large scale heterogeneous control systems, and hence informing the research and Development of autonomic systems for other application areas (e.g. energy management, computer network control). Related areas such as planning, scheduling or machine learning will also benefit from having a problem-rich domain on which to test research ideas.

The impact to stakeholders and users will be, in general, to emonstrate the potential step change to current technological solutions that an autonomic approach will bring. For technology manufacturers and suppliers, the Action will transfer sufficient knowledge and techniques to implement this step change; for transport managers and transport policy institutions the Action will imbue them with an awareness of the implications of the step change, the potential benefits in terms of cost reductions, environmental impact, and technological sustainability. The ARTS community will benefit from multi-disciplinary perspectives on the issues, and as a result of research visibility that the Action will entail, from an influx of new researchers in autonomic systems eager to engage within their specialism in transport system challenges.