Research Road Safety and Development of Training Programs
In January 2006, Pierro joined the team at Virage Simulation. Since 1976, he has studied the effects of driver training on driver behavior and crash risk from the multiple perspectives of: driver trainer for novices and professional drivers; teacher-trainer; driving school owner; training program developer; corporate consultant, and; road safety researcher. Pierro completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California and his Masters and Doctorate at the University of Montreal. He is currently working on a Post-doctorate at the HEC, Montreal.
For his Master’s degree, Pierro studied the ability of professional driving teachers to predict the future behavior of their student drivers. His doctoral research focused on the factors associated with increased crash risk among 1,807 adolescent, novice drivers during their first year of unsupervised driving. For his post-doctorate he is developing of a driving simulator based hazard perception test.
Pierro is the author of many scientific publications related to driver training and its impact on road safety. He has presented the results of his research at national and international conferences. He is now applying his experience, knowledge, insight and passion for road safety towards the development of driving-simulator training and evaluation scenarios and training curricula.