Depends on whether you mean the tool of the technology. Yes, the common traceroute uses icmp, but since it has become very popular for transit networks to ignor

Depends on whether you mean the tool of the technology. Yes, the common traceroute uses icmp, but since it has become very popular for transit networks to ignore echo requests, there's also tcp (e.g. lft) and udp (e.g. Cisco's default) traceroute tools.