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Keone Kelobonye
Title
Dr.
Firstname
Keone
Lastname
Kelobonye
Position
Head of Department
Office
248/131
Phone
355 2985/5201
Professional Qualifications

PhD.| Spatial Sciences: Metropolitan Transport Planning (Curtin University, Australia)

MSc.| Geospatial ScienceÌý(Curtin University, Australia)

M.A. (Prof) | Planning Policy and StrategyÌý(4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû)

BSc.| Urban and Regional Planning (4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû)

Brief Biography

Dr. Keone Kelobonye is a Senior Lecturer of GIS, Urban & Transportation Planning at 4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû (UB), and is currently the acting Head of the Department of Architecture and Planning. He is a certified Urban and Transport PlannerÌýand researcher, registered with the Department of Town and Country Planning in Botswana. His professional memberships also include the Pula Institute of Town Planners (BW) and the American Association of Geographers (USA).ÌýDr Kelobonye holdsÌýBSc and MA Prof. degrees in Urban & Regional Planning from UB, andÌýMaster of Science and Doctoral degrees from Curtin University, Australia.

Keone's research interests lie at the nexusÌýof Metropolitan Transportation Planning and Sustainable Urban Development, with some of his recent and current works focusing on transit planning and performance evaluation, spatial equity of accessibility, commuter behaviour analysis, and travel efficiency optimisation using Urban Informatics and Big Data Analytics.ÌýKeone is an early career researcher (ECR) with a record of publications in international journals of Transport Planning, Land Use Planning and Geoinformatics.Ìý

Teaching Areas

Geographic Information Systems

Planning Support Systems

Urban & Regional Economics

Planning for Climate Change

Planning Policy & Administration

Digital Cartography

Spatial Modelling

Transportation research

Research Areas

Geospatial intelligence, urban spatial structure, urban geo-informatics, metropolitan transport planning, transport geography, accessibility, spatial equity, travel efficiency, transport policy, travel behaviour, travel mode choice.

Postgraduate Supervision Areas
  • Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T)
  • Commuting patterns, behaviourÌýand mode choice;
  • Trip generation, attraction and management;
  • Transport infrastructure and facility planning;
  • Spatial equity of urban facilities and services;
  • Accessibility evaluation and optimisation in metropolitan areas;
  • Efficient and sustainable travel through urban design and functionality.
Selected Publications

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Zhang, B., Dong, Y., Kelobonye, K., Zhou, RZ., & Xu, Z.Ìý(2023). Delineating walking catchments of existing and proposed public sports facilities with open-source data: a case study of Nanjing.ÌýApplied spatial analysis and policy, 16 (2), 729-749

Kelobonye, K., Zhou, H., Xia, J., & McCarney, G. (2021). Effective density vs. accessibility: Which model to apply in the evaluation and prioritisation of activity centres?ÌýApplied Geography, 128, 102390.

Kelobonye, K., Zhou, H., McCarney, G., & Xia, J. (2020). Measuring the accessibility and spatial equity of urban services under competition using the cumulative opportunities measure. Journal of Transport Geography, 85, 102706.

Kelobonye, K., McCarney, G., Xia, J., Swapan, M. S. H., Mao, F., & Zhou, H. (2019). Relative accessibility analysis for key land uses: A spatial equity perspective. Journal of Transport Geography, 75, 82-93.

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