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Concern about the townlet infrastructure construction in developing country is one of the crucial part of county town planning and development. By taking the overall planning and design in a case study of Porto-novo city at Republic of Benin, this paper analyzes the characteristics and opportunities of Porto-novo city and puts forward corresponding infrastructure construction strategy. In the end, the paper comes up with specific plan of planning and design under the background of Porto-novo's planning of development strategy.

In recent years, with the rapid and continuous increase in traffic demand, a new upsurge in the construction of transport system is being made in Porto-novo. Thus, the problem of how to make modal transport system in this area play its full role and make its helpful to the development of integrated multimodal transportation networks needs to be urgently put forward. Recognizing these needs, this paper systematically addresses key issues and challenges toward developing integrated multimodal national transportation networks in the banded development axis of Abomey-Calavi-Pkota, Cotonou and Porto-novo with an emphasis to regional connectivity. Particularly, the paper addresses issues with the planning process, institutions, governance, strengths and weaknesses, funding and integrated multimodal development.