UniteGPS helps districts replace paper maps, guesswork, and one-person route knowledge with a school bus driver navigation and routing app built for daily operations. Drivers get route-aware directions, administrators sync student data, and transportation teams can update routes, print sheets, optimize mileage, and support sub drivers with confidence—all backed by hands-on implementation and live support.
From route setup to driver tablets, UniteGPS connects planning, navigation, optimization, and support in one transportation platform.
Build and manage bus routes straight from your student data — assign students to stops and zones, support transfer points, double runs, and day-of-the-week routing for split-custody and dual-address students, and drag stops between routes instantly.
Learn More →Analyze your existing routes to find consolidations, eliminate redundant routes, and cut daily mileage and student ride time — with before-and-after overlays and documented dollar savings to defend route changes to your board.
Learn More →The engine behind optimization: it rebalances student loads across your school bus fleet within hard constraints — capacity caps, maximum ride time, and bell windows — and proposes consolidation scenarios for your team to review and approve.
Learn More →A daily data feed from your student information system — PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, or Harmony — that works even without the SIS transportation module, flagging new students, address changes, and disenrollments in one action center and bulk-importing staff.
Parent messaging by email and SMS: send each family their stop and pickup or drop-off times, broadcast route changes, and handle weather and emergency alerts — replacing manual phone trees and a pile of separate apps.
Learn More →A shared trip calendar with a request-and-approval workflow (secretary → AD → principal), Google Calendar export, and bus and driver assignment checked against your daily routes.
Learn More →UniteGPS turns student data into practical bus routes, then gives drivers the tools to follow them accurately. From SIS-synced rosters and drag-and-drop stop changes to tablet navigation and printable route sheets, transportation teams can support sub drivers, reduce route confusion, and adjust service faster. The result is safer daily operations and fewer knowledge gaps when drivers change.
See how districts use UniteGPS to reduce calls, improve routes, and operate with better transportation data.
UniteGPS helps districts modernize routing without losing the human support transportation teams rely on. We don't just sell you software and walk away — we stay, we share what we know, and we help you build a transportation operation your district can be proud of.
Built from real district conversations, not generic mapping software or investor-driven feature checklists.
Built from real district conversations, not generic mapping software or investor-driven feature checklists.
Routing, GPS, driver tablets, parent communication, ridership, and reporting work together in one platform.
Unlimited live support with named implementation help keeps transportation teams moving without ticket queues.
FERPA compliance and SIS synchronization help districts manage student transportation data responsibly.
Meet the founders behind UniteGPS student transportation technology.
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.
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.
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.
Sub drivers unfamiliar with the area are the recurring use case here — they can follow turn-by-turn directions and printable route sheets for the assigned route, so covering an absence doesn't mean missed stops.
Yes — notifications follow the actual route path rather than mere proximity, so a family isn't alerted just because a bus passes a nearby road before it reaches their stop.
Yes. You'll know where the bus is 24/7 — even when the ignition and engine aren't live, you can still track it.
Plug and play. The units are pre-labeled and pre-assigned per bus, so all you do is plug in the bus each one goes to.
Yes. We run a daily data feed from your student information system — PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, or Harmony. It works even if you don't have the SIS transportation module, and it can still identify who's a bus rider. A daily action center flags new students, address changes, and disenrollments so your routes stay current.
Very little heavy lifting on your end — we set up your routes for you so you don't feel overwhelmed by a big project. A named implementation contact builds your routes with you and trains drivers to adoption, and the free 90-day setup covers it.
A real person. It's not a chatbot and it's not outsourced to an overseas call center — it's somebody in our own organization. One director said they'd met at least five of our team, compared with a prior vendor they spoke to once in five years.
Neither — there's no first-year gimmick, and nobody's expected to work for free. We set up your routes and your data feed at no cost for 90 days to take the risk out of the decision, and if you don't continue, you keep the routing we built. Billing is year-to-year with annual invoicing, and at the GPS tier the GPS devices are included free.
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Supports student data protection expectations.
Proven across K-12 transportation teams nationwide.
Supports student data protection expectations.
Proven across K-12 transportation teams nationwide.
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