== Abstract ==

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Drivers with Parkinson’s disease (PD) may have difficulties in their driving competence and these deficits may<br> lead to reduced driver performance and increased accident probability. The objective of the present paper is the<br> analysis of traffic and safety behaviour of drivers with PD and the identification of possible compensatory<br> strategies that these drivers follow, by applying a large driving simulator experiment. A thorough neurological and<br> neuropsychological assessment was carried out and then a driving simulator experiment was applied. 54 elderly<br> drivers of similar demographics went through the whole experimental procedure: 34 healthy controls and 20 PD<br> patients. The following driving performance measures were examined: mean speed, time headway, lateral position,<br> steering angle variability, reaction time, and accident probability, by Generalized Linear Models. Summarizing<br> patients with PD are aware of their driving difficulties and they try to develop - not in a successful way - a<br> compensatory driving behaviour and follow a more conservative driving pattern.

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== Original document ==

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* [https://zenodo.org/record/1487517 https://zenodo.org/record/1487517] under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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* [http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1487517 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1487517],

: [https://zenodo.org/record/1487517 https://zenodo.org/record/1487517] under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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* [https://zenodo.org/record/1487517 https://zenodo.org/record/1487517],

: [http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1487516 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1487516] under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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DOIS: 10.5281/zenodo.1487517 10.5281/zenodo.1487516

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