This study develops a Connectivity Utility Model which can be used to calculate the connectivity of an airport, a train station, a city or a region in multi-modal transport networks involving the quantity and multiple dimensions of quality of transport services. This new connectivity measure...

A Connectivity Utility Model developed in Zhu et al. (2017) is modified and adopted in this paper to assess air connectivity between China and Australia for a period of 2005-2016. Our direct connectivity measure shows that Sydney was in an unbeatable position throughout the study period. For...