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Vehicular networks have become a visible reality enabling information sharing between vehicles to enhance driving safety and provide value-added services to drivers and passengers. However, false information might be injected into the network because of defective sensors, malicious vehicles, and so on. Therefore, an efficient mechanism to guarantee the reliability of information used by vehicles is of great importance in vehicular networks. To solve this problem, this article proposes a context-awareness trust management model to evaluate the trustworthiness of messages received by vehicles to ensure bogus information will not influence the driving decision-making process. In the proposed scheme, the trust evaluation result of an evaluation request is determined by available related information and the evaluation strategy in the current situation, which is unaffected by the presence of conflicting evidence and …