Live GPS Tracking
Track school buses in real time with GPS updates every 5 seconds, ignition-off visibility, route activity history, and timestamped data for transportation teams.
Give families and transportation teams real-time visibility into every school bus with UniteGPS. Our software combines 5-second GPS updates, parent ETAs, alerts, route data, and ridership records in one FERPA-compliant platform. Built for K-12 districts nationwide, it helps reduce office calls, improve safety, settle disputes with timestamps, and make student transportation easier to trust.
Integrated tracking, parent communication, routing, alerts, ridership, and SIS tools for K-12 transportation teams.
Track school buses in real time with GPS updates every 5 seconds, ignition-off visibility, route activity history, and timestamped data for transportation teams.
Give families district-approved access to bus location, ETA details, and ride history so they spend less time waiting and calling the office.
Use speeding, idle, and geofence alerts to help transportation leaders identify exceptions, review route behavior, and respond quickly to operational concerns.
Add card swipe on/off tracking to document which students rode which bus, when they boarded, and when they exited.
Sync enrollment data directly into routing and ridership workflows, reducing manual roster updates when students move or change schools.
Combine tracking with optimized routes, printable route sheets, rosters, and Find My Route tools for a complete transportation workflow.
UniteGPS gives K-12 transportation departments more than a dot on a map. Administrators see live locations, alerts, mileage, and route activity, while families get better arrival visibility through the parent app. Built from real district feedback since 2014, the platform helps reduce phone calls, document incidents, and give every stakeholder clearer, more dependable school bus information.
Districts and transit teams use UniteGPS to improve visibility, communication, routing, and day-to-day transportation trust.
UniteGPS helps districts improve visibility, safety, and transportation operations without unnecessary complexity.
Protect student transportation data with FERPA-compliant tools designed for K-12 district operations.
Get help from real people with unlimited live support, not impersonal ticket queues.
Use one platform for routing, GPS tracking, parent visibility, ridership, tablets, and SIS integration.
Work with a profitable, founder-led company built for long-term district partnerships nationwide.
Founder-led transportation software built from 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.
Yes. School districts can track buses in real time using GPS devices connected to transportation software like UniteGPS. The platform shows live bus locations, updates every 5 seconds, and can share ETAs through a parent app when the district activates that feature. Administrators also get alerts, mileage data, route visibility, and timestamped records for resolving questions about where a bus was and when.
Get clear answers from people who build and support the platform.
Supports responsible handling of student transportation data.
Trusted by K-12 districts across the country.
Over a decade focused on transportation technology.
Tell us about your fleet, routing needs, and parent communication goals. Our team can walk you through the right tracking tier and setup path.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 207-591-7777.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 207-591-7777.