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Abstract Vehicular communications are the backbone for future transport applications. This is true for all the domains where dedicated communications are already a central component (rail, naval, aerial transports), but becomes increasingly important for road transport, as cooperative systems and autonomous driving are in constant focus for road planners and vehicle producers. However, for road vehicles there are more challenges to be met, considering the large variety of environments a vehicle may travel: inside cities, on highways, tunnels and so on, each of them having different signal propagation influence that may alter, or even break down communications all together. Therefore, specific analysis of signal propagation issues must be performed, to be able to evaluate the possibility of data transmission in different conditions and for different speeds. In this paper, the authors have performed simulations using Matlab environment to detect the behaviour of the signal in different scenarios and to evaluate the communications issues that may occur.