---
title: "Mode choice research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “mode choice” appeared in 1,020 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (688), economics (282) and AI (21)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mode-choice
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “mode choice” appeared in 1,020 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (688), economics (282) and AI (21). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Papers on “mode choice”

Research on “mode choice” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “mode choice” appeared in 1,020 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (688), economics (282) and AI (21).
- 114 of them were published in 2025, against 81 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Jiaotong University (33), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (19) and University of Leeds (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (114), Transport Policy (68) and Transportation (46).
- The most-cited of them is “Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?” (Journal of Urban Economics, 2018), with 589 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 63 | 55 | 65 | 54 | 73 | 75 | 55 | 89 | 73 | 86 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 17 | 40 | 17 | 28 | 33 | 25 | 28 | 23 | 38 | 33 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 81 | 98 | 85 | 87 | 110 | 112 | 87 | 118 | 114 | 128 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 114 |
| 2 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 68 |
| 3 | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 46 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [Research in Transportation Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-economics.md) | 29 |
| 6 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 24 |
| 7 | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Journal of Choice Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-choice-modelling.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 33 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [University of Leeds](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-leeds.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [Delft University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/delft-university-of-technology.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [Chang'an University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chang-an-university.md) | 13 |
| 10 | Complex Engineering System Institute | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 149 |
| 2 | United States | 64 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 44 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 36 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 36 |
| 6 | Australia | 35 |
| 7 | Germany | 29 |
| 8 | Canada | 25 |
| 9 | India | 22 |
| 10 | Chile | 19 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | travel behavior | 64 |
| 2 | public transport | 42 |
| 3 | ride-hailing | 39 |
| 4 | stated preference | 31 |
| 5 | travel time | 31 |
| 6 | transit ridership | 30 |
| 7 | sustainable transport | 24 |
| 8 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 22 |
| 9 | [autonomous vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-vehicles.md) | 20 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 589 | 6.1 | [Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2018.09.003) | [Journal of Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-urban-economics.md) | 2018-10-04 | Jonathan D. Hall, Craig Palsson, Joseph Price |
| 2 | 423 | 3.6 | [A comparative study of machine learning classifiers for modeling travel mode choice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.01.057) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2017-02-13 | Julian Hagenauer, Marco Helbich |
| 3 | 386 | 3.4 | [Exploring the influence of built environment on travel mode choice considering the mediating effects of car ownership and travel distance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2017.04.008) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2017-04-13 | Chuan Ding, Donggen Wang, Chao Liu et al. |
| 4 | 319 | 2.8 | [Do attitudes cause behavior or vice versa? An alternative conceptualization of the attitude-behavior relationship in travel behavior modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.013) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2017-05-17 | Maarten Kroesen, Susan Handy, Caspar G Chorus |
| 5 | 305 | 3.2 | [The who, why, and when of Uber and other ride-hailing trips: An examination of a large sample household travel survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.11.018) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2018-12-13 | Mischa Young, Steven Farber |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “mode choice”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mode-choice

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@misc{scholar4ai-keywords-mode-choice,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “mode choice”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mode-choice}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).