© 2017 IEEE. Packet collision and packet delay are considered to be critical for safety applications in vehicular networks. This paper designs a new analytical model to evaluate the performance of channel switching for IEEE 802.11p/WAVE in vehicular networks. Under this model, it explicitly expresses the WAVE channel switching, and constructs contention window size and number of vehicles as packet collision probability and packet delay time function of variables. Finally, we evaluate accuracy of the designed model of collision caused by channel switching and transmission delay in vehicular networks. The results show that the model could analyzes perfectly packet collision which is caused by channel switching and packet delay in vehicular ne...