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Research in Transportation Business Management 2 (2011) 48–56 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Research in Transportation Business Management Public transport accessibility through co-modality: Are interconnectivity indicators good enough? Claudia de Stasio, Davide Fiorello ⁎, Silvia Maffii TRT Trasporti e Territorio, via Rutilia 10/8 20141 Milano, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Improving the accessibility of areas using public transport modes in various combinations (or even in Received 5 January 2011 combination with car) is one major goal of the concept of co-modality. For co-modality, the quality of Received in revised form 22 June 2011 interconnectivity is a major requirement to improve accessibility and indicators exist for measuring Accepted 4 July 2011 accessibility and interconnectivity of nodes. However, in this paper we argue that co-modality is not fully Available online 26 July 2011 measured by most common indicators. Furthermore, in that qualitative aspects are key features of co modality, indicators do not provide enough information for ex-ante analyses. Keywords: Interconnectivity © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Co-modality Network Accessibility 1. Introduction consequence