| V2V | Vehicle-to-Vehicle |
| V2I | Vehicle-to-Infrastructure |
| VANET | Vehicular Ad-hoc Network |
| PN | Physical Node |
| VN | Virtual Node |
| PSI | Persistent State Information |
| VTL | Virtual Traffic Lights |
| VNAODV | Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector on Virtual Nodes |
| VNIBR-R | Intersection-Based Routing on Virtual Nodes—Reactive |
| VNIBR-P | Intersection-Based Routing on Virtual Nodes—Proactive |
| VNIBR-E | Intersection-Based Routing on Virtual Nodes—Encounter-based |
| L1VN | Level 1 Virtual Node |
| L2VN | Level 2 Virtual Node |
| L3VN | Level 3 Virtual Node |
| FT | Fixed-time |
| MP | Max-Pressure |
| AMP | Adaptive Max-Pressure |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |