  Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) were introduced mainly to increase
vehicular safety by enabling communication between vehicles and infrastructure
to improve overall awareness. The vehicles in a VANET are expected to exchange
numerous messages generated by multiple applications, but mainly, these
applications can be subdivided into safety and non-safety. The main
communication technologies designed for VANETs, DSRC (Dedicated Short Range
Communication) and C-V2X (Cellular V2X), mainly focus on delay-sensitive
safety-related applications. However, sharing the same bandwidth for safety and
non-safety applications will increase the burden on the communication channel
and can cause an increase in the overall latencies. Therefore, this work
analyses the feasibility of using LoRa communication for non-safety-related
urban VANET applications. We conducted multiple real-world experiments to
analyse the performance of LoRa communication in various urban VANET scenarios.
Our results show that LoRa communication handles the Dopper shifts caused by
the urban VANET speeds with both Spreading Factor (SF) 7 and 12. However,
higher SF was more vulnerable to Doppler shifts than lower SF. Furthermore, the
results illustrate that the Line-of-Sight (LoS) condition significantly affects
the LoRa communication, especially in the case of lower SF.
