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2026

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85
Citations
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National Ranking
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80
Citations
29666
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  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award

Overview

Patricia L. Mokhtarian is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Transportation. Mokhtarian's work encompasses multiple subfields including Transportation, Automotive Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, Marketing, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scholar has authored numerous papers and book publications. Recent significant papers include:

  • What drives the gap? Applying the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method to examine generational differences in transportation-related attitudes, 2020, Transportation
  • How attractive is it to use the internet while commuting? A work-attitude-based segmentation of Northern California commuters, 2020, Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • Teleworking behavior pre-, during, and expected post-COVID: Identification and empirical description of trajectory types, 2023, Travel Behaviour and Society
  • Substitution or complementarity? A latent-class cluster analysis of ridehailing impacts on the use of other travel modes in three southern U.S. cities, 2022, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • The role of attitudes in perceptions of bicycle facilities: A latent-class regression approach, 2021, Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Mokhtarian has coauthored frequently with a group of researchers, including Giovanni Circella, Xinyi Wang, Kari Watkins, F. Atiyya Shaw, and Sung Hoo Kim. Their collaborations reflect sustained academic partnerships contributing to their research fields.

Their publications appear mainly in the following venues:

  • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • Transportation
  • Travel Behaviour and Society
  • Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

The researcher has contributed to book literature as well, including the title "Bicyclist Facility Preferences and Effects on Increasing Bicycle Trips," published by Transportation Research Board eBooks in 2020.

Mokhtarian's main topics of work include:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms

Best Publications

  • Correlation or causality between the built environment and travel behavior? Evidence from Northern California

    Susan Handy;Xinyu Cao;Patricia L. Mokhtarian

  • A micro-analysis of land use and travel in five neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area

    Ryuichi Kitamura;Patricia L. Mokhtarian;Laura Laidet

  • Examining the Impacts of Residential Self-Selection on Travel Behaviour: A Focus on Empirical Findings

    Xinyu (Jason) Cao;Patricia L. Mokhtarian;Susan L. Handy

  • How Derived is the Demand for Travel? Some Conceptual and Measurement Considerations

    Patricia L Mokhtarian;Ilan Salomon

  • Examining the impacts of residential self-selection on travel behavior: A focus on methodologies

    Patricia L. Mokhtarian;Xinyu Cao

  • Self-selection in the relationship between the built environment and walking: Empirical evidence from Northern California

    Susan L Handy;Xinyu Cao;Patricia L Mokhtarian

  • The impact of residential neighborhood type on travel behavior: A structural equations modeling approach

    Michael N. Bagley;Patricia L. Mokhtarian

  • What Affects Commute Mode Choice: Neighborhood Physical Structure or Preferences Toward Neighborhoods?

    Tim Schwanen;Patricia L. Mokhtarian

  • What type of vehicle do people drive? The role of attitude and lifestyle in influencing vehicle type choice

    Sangho Choo;Patricia L Mokhtarian

  • The Influences of the Built Environment and Residential Self-Selection on Pedestrian Behavior: Evidence from Austin, TX

    Xinyu Cao;Susan L. Handy;Patricia L. Mokhtarian

  • Do changes in neighborhood characteristics lead to changes in travel behavior? A structural equations modeling approach

    Xinyu Cao;Patricia L. Mokhtarian;Susan L. Handy

  • What influences travelers to use Uber? Exploring the factors affecting the adoption of on-demand ride services in California

    Farzad Alemi;Giovanni Circella;Susan Handy;Patricia L Mokhtarian

  • A Typology of Relationships Between Telecommunications And Transportation

    Patricia L. Mokhtarian

  • THE POSITIVE UTILITY OF THE COMMUTE: MODELING IDEAL COMMUTE TIME AND RELATIVE DESIRED COMMUTE AMOUNT

    Lothlorien S. Redmond;Patricia L. Mokhtarian

  • The relationship between the built environment and nonwork travel: A case study of Northern California

    Xinyu (Jason) Cao;Patricia L. Mokhtarian;Susan L. Handy

  • TTB OR NOT TTB, THAT IS THE QUESTION: A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE ON TRAVEL TIME (AND MONEY) BUDGETS

    Patricia L. Mokhtarian;Cynthia Chen

  • A conceptual analysis of the transportation impacts of B2C e-commerce

    Patricia L Mokhtarian

  • Modeling the Desire to Telecommute: The Importance of Attitudinal Factors in Behavioral Models

    Patricia L. Mokhtarian;Ilan Salomon

  • When is getting there half the fun? Modeling the liking for travel

    David T. Ory;Patricia L. Mokhtarian

  • Travel mode choice and travel satisfaction: bridging the gap between decision utility and experienced utility

    Jonas De Vos;Patricia L. Mokhtarian;Tim Schwanen;Veronique Van Acker;Veronique Van Acker

  • What Influences Travelers to Use Uber? Exploring the Factors Affecting the Adoption of On-Demand Ride Services

    Farzad Alemi;Giovanni Circella;Susan Handy;Patricia Mokhtarian

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan L Handy
Susan L Handy University of California, Davis
Ilan Salomon
Ilan Salomon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ram M. Pendyala
Ram M. Pendyala Arizona State University
Chandra R. Bhat
Chandra R. Bhat The University of Texas at Austin
Tim Schwanen
Tim Schwanen University of Oxford
Susan Shaheen
Susan Shaheen University of California, Berkeley
Frank Witlox
Frank Witlox Ghent University
Kenneth A. Small
Kenneth A. Small University of California, Irvine
Anna Nagurney
Anna Nagurney University of Massachusetts Amherst
Keith F. Widaman
Keith F. Widaman University of California, Riverside

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