This document outlines a proposed approach to avoid packet dropping misbehavior in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) using a trust-based ant colony optimization method. It first introduces VANETs and discusses security issues like malicious attacks that can predictably drop packets. It then reviews trust management and metaheuristic approaches like ant colony optimization. Finally, it proposes a method called TACO-Trust that uses ant colony optimization incorporating trust values and pheromone levels to distinguish trusted from malicious nodes and enhance security in VANET routing.