A pavement designer has arrived at a design traffic of 100 million standard axles for a newly developing national highway as per IRC:37 guidelines using the following data: design life = 15 years, commercial vehicle count before pavement construction $=4500$ vehicles/day, annual traffic growth rate $=8 \%$. The vehicle damage factor used in the calculation was
(A) 1.53
(B) 2.24
(C) 3.66
(D) 4.14
A pavement designer has arrived at a design traffic of 100 million standard axles for a newly developing national highway as per IRC:37 guidelines using the following data: design life = 15 years, commercial vehicle count before pavement construction $=4500$ vehicles/day, annual traffic growth rate $=8 \%$. The vehicle damage factor used in the calculation was
(A) 1.53
(B) 2.24
(C) 3.66
(D) 4.14