Add to ORKGThe Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am immensely thankful to my advisor Dr. Lisa Spainhour for her patience and encouragement during the completion of my thesis work. I would also like to thank Dr. Primus M’tenga and Dr. Makola Abdullah for being on my committee. I am grateful to my colleagues at Traffic Records Automation and Research laboratory (TRAIL) for their support and assistance. I want to express my sincere gratitude to my parents, B. H. Saravade and Pushpa Saravade, for their love and trust in me. Without their faith and blessing achieving this goal would not have been possible. I am immensely thankful to my husband Sameer Ambare for hanging in there with...