Work amongst distributed snow plows

This is a very interesting paper concerning how operators of snow plows use VHF radio to coordinate their actions to keep airport runways clear. They were investigating how a new mobile, location awareness system was being used and ended up looking at the larger work issues which were preventing use of it.

Decentralizing the Control Room: Mobile Work and Institutional Order, 2001
Oskar Juhlin and Alexandra Weilenmann
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