Planning; Active Healthy Communities Coordinator, Thurston County Public Health &

Residential street design is widely considered to be an important feature of urban form that affects local travel behaviour, yet there is little consensus about which forms of street design offer the best results on transportation outcomes. Neo-traditional designs, conventional dendritic street layouts ending in culs-de-sac, and others vie for being considered the street standard most supportive of livability and sustainability goals. This paper reports on research that attempts to assess street network patterns in relation to travel outcomes. The Fused Grid street design, offering a well-connected travel network founded on gridiron composition while adding network treatments that provide pedestrians relatively greater extent of pathway and more direct routing than vehicles when compared to typical street patterns, remains largely untested regarding its implications for travel behaviour. This study assessed the Fused Grid, building on research that has investigated travel behaviour’s association with urban form. It used empirical, quasi-experimental methods to develop evidence for the likely outcomes associated with street layouts that improve relative pedestrian connectivity. Using GIS, researchers measured the connectivity of streets, along with other influential urban form