A vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is generally a heterogeneous wireless network generated between vehicles. The vehicles of the VANET have wireless transceivers and computerized control for allowing the vehicles to operate as network nodes, hence the vehicles can communicate in a VANET environment. However, the communication of VANET is affected because of the higher network congestion and energy usage caused by the dynamic topology of VANET. Therefore, an effective Traffic-Aware Routing (TAR) approach is required to be developed to enhance communication. In this paper, the Multi-Objective Delay Centric Enhanced Artificial Ecosystem-based Optimization (MDCEAEO) is proposed to develop a TAR in VANET. The End to End Delay (EED) is considered as primary cost in the MDCEAEO to develop the TAR where a vehicle's average predicted speed is utilized for identifying the traffic in VANET. The developed MDCEAEO-TAR method is used to improve data transmission by avoiding collisions. The performances of MDCEAEO-TAR are evaluated using EED, energy consumption, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), and the routing overhead. The existing research such as LARgeoOPT, DREAMgeoOPT, ZRPgeoOPT, Improved Harmony Search (IHS) and Enhanced Distance, Residual energy based Congestion Aware Ant Colony Optimization (EDR-CAACO), Artificial Ecosystem-based Optimization (AEO), FixedStep Average and Subtraction Based Optimizer (FS-ASBO) and Three Influential Members Based Optimizer (TIMBO) are used to evaluate the MDCEAEO-TAR. The PDR of the MDCEAEO-TAR is 0.9836 at 1000s, which is high when compared to the IHS.