Live GPS Tracking
Track every school bus in real time with GPS updates every 5 seconds, even when ignition is off, so transportation teams can verify location, route progress, and activity.
Learn More →School Bus Driver Behavior Monitoring & Safety
Improve school bus safety with driver behavior monitoring tools that help transportation teams identify speeding, excessive idling, route exceptions, and performance trends in real time. UniteGPS combines live GPS updates, alerts, analytics, and tablet-based safety workflows so districts can coach drivers, reduce risk, document activity, and keep families better informed without adding more administrative work.
Our School Bus Driver Behavior Monitoring & Safety Services
Monitor driver activity, reduce transportation risk, and document school bus safety with integrated GPS, alerts, and tablet tools.
Behavior Alerts
Receive speeding, idle, and geofence alerts that help supervisors identify risky patterns, respond quickly, and coach drivers using timestamped operational data instead of guesswork.
Driver Tablet Tools
Equip buses with tablets for turn-by-turn navigation, vehicle inspections, student ridership tracking, and safety-compliance workflows that help drivers stay consistent and accountable.
Learn More →Safer Routes Start With Better Data
UniteGPS helps districts move from reactive safety management to real-time visibility. Transportation teams can see bus locations, monitor speeding and idle alerts, review geofence activity, and use analytics to coach drivers with facts. Combined with tablet-based navigation, inspections, and ridership tracking, the platform supports safer operations while reducing parent calls and administrative guesswork.
District Success Stories
See how districts use UniteGPS to improve visibility, reduce calls, and run safer transportation operations.
Why Choose UniteGPS?
UniteGPS combines practical safety tools with long-term support for K-12 transportation teams.
UniteGPS is FERPA compliant, helping districts protect sensitive student transportation and ridership information.
FERPA Compliant
UniteGPS is FERPA compliant, helping districts protect sensitive student transportation and ridership information.
District Proven
Over 100 school districts use UniteGPS for routing, GPS tracking, ridership, and transportation visibility.
Founder Led
Built without private equity pressure, UniteGPS prioritizes long-term partnerships and practical district needs.
Live Support
Unlimited live support means transportation teams get real help without ticket queues or delays.
Meet The UniteGPS Team
Founder-led transportation technology built for long-term district partnerships.
Christopher Bunnell
Co-Founder
Christopher Bunnell is a Co-Founder of UniteGPS, the company he helped launch in 2014 after watching his own children wait in the freezing Maine winter for a school bus with no arrival information. Driven by that firsthand frustration, Chris partnered with Steve C. Lanning and Steven J. Lanning to build a real-time GPS tracking solution that gave families the visibility they deserved. Before UniteGPS, Chris served as the on-site client representative in Baltimore for a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project, while the technical team operated remotely from California. At UniteGPS, Chris has led client relationships and stakeholder engagement since day one, ensuring the platform continues to solve real problems for school districts and transit agencies nationwide.
Steve C. Lanning
Co-Founder
Steve C. Lanning is a Co-Founder of UniteGPS, bringing deep database architecture and enterprise-level technical expertise to the platform since its founding in 2014. Steve previously served as an Oracle database administrator on a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, where he first collaborated with Chris Bunnell. In the early years of UniteGPS, Steve balanced the project alongside other professional commitments until growing client traction made it a full-time pursuit. His database expertise has been instrumental in building a reliable, scalable platform that now serves over 100 school districts nationwide, supporting everything from route optimization to student ridership tracking and SIS data integration.
Steven J. Lanning
Co-Founder
Steven J. Lanning is a Co-Founder of UniteGPS and the primary architect behind the Crosswalk platform, which he has built and continuously refined since the company's founding in 2014. Steven began his career on the same Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project as his co-founders, focusing on solution quality assurance and software testing for production readiness while simultaneously pursuing formal software development training. When UniteGPS launched, Steven committed full-time to product development, translating real feedback from transportation directors and drivers into practical platform features. His customer-driven approach to engineering has helped UniteGPS grow into a fully integrated transportation management solution trusted by K-12 districts and transit agencies across the United States.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is driver behavior monitoring?
Driver behavior monitoring is the use of GPS, alerts, and analytics to understand how school buses are being operated. With UniteGPS, districts can track live vehicle location, speeding events, excessive idling, geofence activity, mileage categories, and performance trends. This gives transportation leaders objective data for coaching drivers, answering parent concerns, documenting incidents, and improving safety across the fleet.
What driver behaviors can school districts monitor?
UniteGPS helps districts monitor key safety-related behaviors through live GPS tracking that updates every 5 seconds, speeding alerts, idle alerts, geofence alerts, mileage tracking, and performance analytics. When used with the Tablet Suite, districts also gain driver navigation, vehicle inspection workflows, student ridership records, and safety-compliance documentation from the same integrated platform.
Does UniteGPS include speeding and idle alerts?
Yes. School Bus GPS Tracking & Routing is available at $25 per bus per month and includes GPS devices at no additional hardware cost for that tier. Districts get live bus tracking, speeding and idle alerts, mileage tracking, Find My Route, performance analytics, and a basic real-time parent app, along with all Routing Essentials features.
How does driver monitoring improve student safety?
UniteGPS gives transportation staff timestamped GPS data, route history, and alert records that show where a bus was and what happened at a specific time. This helps districts review speeding concerns, verify route adherence, answer parent disputes, and support driver coaching with objective records instead of relying on memory, paper notes, or conflicting reports.
How much does school bus driver behavior monitoring cost?
The GPS Tracking & Routing tier starts at $25 per bus per month, or $300 per bus annually, and includes the GPS device at no additional hardware cost. The Tablet Suite is $39 per bus per month for software, with additional tablet data plan and one-time hardware costs. Routing Essentials starts at $49 per month for fleets of 1–5 buses.
Is there a free trial or setup period?
UniteGPS offers a free 90-day trial with no credit card required for GPS Tracking & Routing. For routing, the team also provides free 90-day setup with routes built for you. During onboarding, UniteGPS can configure routing, GPS tracking, alerts, SIS integration, and related tools so districts can evaluate the system with real transportation data.
Is UniteGPS safe for student transportation data?
Yes. UniteGPS is FERPA compliant and built for K-12 transportation environments where student data protection matters. The platform supports controlled access to routing, ridership, parent app, and transportation records. SIS integration also helps keep student rosters and assignments aligned with the district’s authoritative enrollment source, reducing manual handling of sensitive information.
Where is UniteGPS available?
UniteGPS serves K-12 school districts nationwide and is available in all 50 states. The company supports districts of different fleet sizes, from small transportation departments to larger school systems. Because the platform is cloud-based and includes live support with no ticket queues, districts can implement GPS tracking, routing, tablets, and safety tools without needing a local office nearby.
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Awards and Recognition
Student data protection for K-12 transportation systems.
More than a decade of transportation technology development.
FERPA Compliant
Student data protection for K-12 transportation systems.
12 Years Experience
More than a decade of transportation technology development.
100+ Districts Served
Trusted by school districts across the United States.
