Connected vehicle technologies aim to tackle some of the biggest challenges in the surface transportation industry. Connected vehicles feature safety warnings that alert drivers of potentially dangerous conditions - impending collisions, real-time information about traffic conditions and dangerous curves - before the driver is aware of them. The technology is anticipated to reduce unimpaired vehicle crashes by 80 percent. This paper presents the Named Data Networking (NDN) approach that seems to be the best suited to mobile environments, especially for connected vehicle. This work will describe the NDN along with its components, we will include some details of NDN in Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET) and finally, we will discuss the open issues and future research directions.

Keywords: Connected Vehicle; VANETs; NDN