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Inka Koskela, Ilkka Arminen & Hannele Palukka
Centres of coordination as a nexus of aviation
1. Introduction
Much of contemporary mobility is based on large scale mobility systems,
such as railway, marine transport, and air traffic systems designed to move
and connect both people and goods across distances. Each of these systems
is based on networks of centres of coordination, in which people handle and man-
age distributed activities to maintain the scheduled operation of mobile ac-
tors (Suchman 1993). Through external coordination, “mobility” in these
systems is qualitatively different from non-coordinated ...