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The work involves pavement design, the design life of the project is 20 years, you are expected to review design criteria. Based on your analysis, you are expected to recommend the appropriate type of the pavement you should able to justify and defend the selection. The analysis should include a trade-off between constructing flexible pavement versus and rigid pavement. The evaluation should also cover the practical aspects (techniques and methods of construction for providing pavement, taking into consideration that flexible pavements are more common in Jordan. You need to consider the following data for the analysis AADT: 15,000 veh/d The type of vehicles and their composition are shown in the following tables Vehicle Type Passenger cars Pickup 2-axle trucks 3-axle truck S: Single % of AADT 60% 15% 15% 10% T: Tandem Weight (tone) 2.5 3.5 20 25 Axle Configuration 2 (s-s) 2 (s-s) 2 (s-s) 3 (s-t) 1st axle weight 1.25 1.75 7 7 2nd axle weight 1.25 1.75 13 9 3rd axle weight 9