A system and method to perform intelligent communication management in a vehicle include receiving one or more messages for transmission from the vehicle, and receiving inputs additional to the one or more messages for transmission. A communication manager selects one or more radio access technology (RAT) channels from available RAT channels of the vehicle to respectively transmit the one or more messages. The available RAT channels include a cellular RAT channel, WiFi RAT channel, designated short-range communication (DSRC) RAT channel, or WiGig RAT channel.