UniteGPS helps K-12 transportation teams replace spreadsheets, paper maps, and institutional memory with reliable school bus routing and scheduling software. From SIS data sync and route optimization to parent messaging and GPS visibility, the platform gives districts a practical way to reduce mileage, manage changes faster, and build safer, more defensible transportation plans.
Integrated routing, scheduling, optimization, communication, 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.
UniteGPS connects to your student information system, imports student and staff data, and flags new students, address changes, and disenrollments through a daily action center so your routes stay current.
The platform builds routes from your student data, assigning riders to stops and zones while supporting transfer points, double runs, split-custody schedules, dual addresses, and day-of-the-week routing.
Optimization tools rebalance loads, test consolidation scenarios, and evaluate mileage, capacity, bell windows, and ride-time constraints before your team approves final route changes.
Transportation staff can publish route sheets, send stop times to families, broadcast changes or delays, and export printable turn-by-turn directions for sub and new drivers.
Optional GPS tracking, performance analytics, parent app visibility, ridership scanning, and mileage reports help districts monitor routes, defend decisions, and keep improving transportation operations.
Districts nationwide use UniteGPS to simplify routes, reduce calls, and improve transportation visibility.
UniteGPS combines practical software, responsive support, and long-term commitment to school 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.
More than 10 years focused on practical transportation software for K-12 districts.
More than 10 years focused on practical transportation software for K-12 districts.
Routing, GPS, parent communication, ridership, inspections, and reporting work together in one platform.
Unlimited live support from UniteGPS staff, with named implementation help and driver training.
FERPA compliant workflows help districts manage student transportation data responsibly and securely.
Founder-led transportation technology built for real district needs.
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.
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.
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.
Yes. Instead of your drivers calling each family, the system sends parents their stop and pickup or drop-off times, and the parent app shows the approaching bus so families can have their kids ready.
Yes — there's a shared trip calendar you can check first thing each morning, and it exports to Google Calendar.
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.
We handle student data under FERPA, with a data use agreement, encryption, and a data destruction policy. If your district has its own data form, we'll sign it — so student information isn't scattered across disconnected tools.
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Supports responsible student data protection.
Serving districts nationwide since 2014.
Supports responsible student data protection.
Serving districts nationwide since 2014.
Trusted by over 100 school districts.
