Summary
Nowadays, inter‐vehicle and intra‐vehicle communication triggers the development of safety and non‐safety applications in Vehicular Adhoc NETworks (VANET). These applications need to be evaluated before the actual implementation. The performance of these applications is generally evaluated through indispensable tools such as simulators, emulators, and testbeds. Although simulators, emulators, and testbeds are available as open‐source or proprietary for VANET applications, finding the correct tool for the experiment is intriguing and challenging from the researcher's perspective. In this paper, our focus is to provide a comprehensive survey on the existing simulators, emulators, and real time testbeds based on technical specifications, capabilities, etc. To the best of our knowledge, there is no such an exhaustive survey that exists in the literature. Further, we developed a real time low‐cost VANET testbed on our institute campus to implement the VANET related projects.