GPS Tracking
Track every school bus in real time with 5-second updates, geofence alerts, mileage tracking, speeding alerts, and timestamped data that helps resolve parent questions quickly.
Give families and transportation teams real-time visibility into every school bus with UniteGPS. Parents can see where their child’s bus is, view ETAs, and confirm ride history, while districts reduce phone calls, document student safety, and manage routing from one integrated, FERPA-compliant platform built for K-12 transportation across communities nationwide, from small districts to larger fleets.
UniteGPS combines live bus tracking, parent communication, routing, ridership, and district operations tools in one K-12 platform.
Track every school bus in real time with 5-second updates, geofence alerts, mileage tracking, speeding alerts, and timestamped data that helps resolve parent questions quickly.
Give families secure access to their child’s bus location, ETA, and ride history after district activation, helping reduce uncertainty and transportation office call volume.
Use card swipe on/off tracking to document which students rode each bus, support safety audits, enable advanced parent notifications, and verify special-education transportation.
Turn student enrollment data into efficient bus routes, rosters, and printable route sheets with automated optimization and optional hands-on planning from UniteGPS specialists.
Equip drivers with onboard tablets for turn-by-turn school bus navigation, vehicle inspections, ridership scanning, categorized mileage, and daily route support.
Sync student enrollment data from systems like PowerSchool, Skyward, or Infinite Campus to keep routes, stops, and ridership records accurate without manual uploads.
UniteGPS helps schools move beyond paper maps, parent phone calls, and disconnected tools. District teams can track buses, optimize routes, sync student records, and give families reliable arrival visibility from one platform. Parents gain peace of mind, while administrators get timestamped data to resolve questions, monitor performance, and strengthen daily transportation operations.
See how school districts use UniteGPS to improve visibility, safety, communication, and transportation efficiency.
UniteGPS is built for transportation teams that need practical tools, responsive support, and trustworthy technology.
Built specifically for K-12 transportation, not retrofitted from generic fleet tracking software.
FERPA-compliant platform protects student transportation data while giving families approved visibility.
Unlimited live support means districts reach real people without ticket queues or delays.
Founder-led, profitable, and bootstrapped, with no private equity pressure shaping decisions.
Founder-led transportation technology 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.
The best app to track buses depends on whether you need consumer transit tracking or secure K-12 transportation visibility. UniteGPS is built specifically for school districts and parents, with live bus location, ETAs, timestamped ride history, routing tools, and FERPA-compliant student data protection. Parents use the app after their school district activates the platform.
Get clear answers from a transportation software specialist.
Protects sensitive student transportation data.
Serving districts nationwide since 2014.
Trusted by 100+ K-12 districts.
Tell us about your fleet size, routing needs, and parent communication goals. The UniteGPS team will explain the best tier, setup timeline, and next steps for your district.
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.