Abstract
Vehicular Communication Network based on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has drawn increasing research interests in recent years. Through modeling and simulation of two traffic mobility scenarios (vehicle platooning and dynamic traffic), we discuss the performance of vehicular communication between vehicles. Two measures are selected, throughput and end-to-end delay, to answer two important questions about how fast the vehicular communication can be approached and how far the communication can reach. These simulation results provide critical recommendation on vehicular communication equipments selection and implementation in a real world situation. Meanwhile, we study the impacts of using ICT in fuel consumption field. The vehicle platooning decreases the fuel consumption. Faster average moving speed decreases the travel time and increases the fuel efficiency. This fuel consumption study can be extended to a more complicated environmental analysis for sustainable transport systems. The study ends with three recommendations for vehicular network researchers and three key challenges and opportunities for using vehicular communication technology to improve transport efficiency.