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By predicting traffic patterns on dense networks, these systems can improve traffic management, mitigate congestion, increase network safety and reliability, and improve energy efficiency. This research investigates the application of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for accurate and efficient V2X traffic prediction. We explored the impact of various hyperparameters, including loss functions and optimizers, on the performance of these models. Our findings indicate that Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) models, particularly with the Mean Squared Error (MSE) loss function and Adam optimizer, consistently outperform Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) models in terms of both accuracy and computational efficiency. For CNN models, the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) activation function, coupled with the Adam optimizer, demonstrated superior performance in terms of Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and computational complexity. 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