UniteGPS helps K-12 districts replace spreadsheets, paper routes, and disconnected tools with one school bus fleet management platform. From routing and SIS integration to live GPS, parent communication, ridership tracking, driver tablets, inspections, and reporting, Crosswalk gives transportation teams clearer data, safer operations, and practical support built around real district needs.
Integrated routing, GPS, communication, ridership, inspection, and reporting tools for K-12 transportation teams.
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 begins by understanding your school bus fleet size, current routing process, SIS environment, parent communication challenges, and reporting needs. This helps determine whether Routing Essentials, GPS Tracking & Routing, or the Tablet Suite is the right starting point.
The team helps set up your student data feed from systems like PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, or Harmony. Daily updates flag new students, address changes, and disenrollments so your routes stay aligned with enrollment realities.
Routes, stops, zones, transfers, double runs, and split-custody schedules are built inside Crosswalk. Optimization tools then identify consolidation opportunities, mileage savings, load balancing improvements, and board-ready before-and-after route comparisons.
Depending on your tier, districts can add GPS devices, parent app access, driver tablets, ridership scanning, inspections, mileage categories, and turn-by-turn navigation. UniteGPS supports training so drivers and office staff adopt the system confidently.
Once live, transportation teams use performance analytics, mileage tracking, alerts, parent messaging, and route history to manage daily operations. UniteGPS support remains available as routes, staffing, student populations, and district needs change.
Districts use UniteGPS to reduce calls, improve visibility, and make transportation decisions with defensible data.
UniteGPS combines practical software, real support, and long-term commitment to student transportation. 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.
Over a decade of focused development shaped by real transportation directors, drivers, families, and district needs.
Over a decade of focused development shaped by real transportation directors, drivers, families, and district needs.
Routing, GPS, SIS sync, parent communication, ridership, inspections, and reporting work together in one platform.
FERPA-compliant practices help districts protect student records while improving visibility and communication.
In-house support and named implementation contacts help districts launch, train staff, and keep improving.
Founder-built transportation software with direct district feedback.
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.
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.
No. We're compatible with existing GPS hardware like CalAmp, Zonar, and 247Recorders — we can take that data feed and run it right in our platform, so you don't have to go buy a whole other GPS system to switch.
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.
Often, yes. A free route optimization study analyzes your routes and returns a documented savings plan plus an independent outside assessment for your board — not just software output. For a mid-size district it's fairly standard to find $300,000 to $500,000, and eliminating a single route saves roughly $40,000 to $50,000 a year.
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.
Yes. Contracts are year-to-year with annual invoicing — not a five-year lock-in — and we put that in writing on the quote, so districts whose board or attorney restricts long-term agreements can move forward without exceeding their term limits.
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Protects student transportation data and records.
Serving districts across the United States.
Protects student transportation data and records.
Serving districts across the United States.
Founder-built platform with long-term client focus.
