# Acoustics and Your Environment: The Basis of Sound and Highway Traffic Noise

Department of Transportation Video VH-706 Acoustics and Your Environment: The Basis of Sound and Highway Traffic Noise This video is an educational tool presenting the fundamentals of sound and highway traffic noise. The first part of the video covers the basics of sound, including the following topics: sound waves, frequency, noise, sound pressure level, sound perception, and other stuff.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1999
- By: Department of Transportation
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.fhwa.ttp.vh-706)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.