Parent Bus App
Show families the real-time location of their child’s bus, current ETA, and timestamped ride history through a parent app activated by the district.
Give families real-time visibility into school bus location, arrival estimates, and ride history from their phones. UniteGPS helps K-12 districts reduce “where is the bus?” calls, improve parent confidence, and support safer student transportation with GPS data, FERPA-conscious tools, and optional scan-on/scan-off ridership notifications at no separate charge to parents.
Real-time parent visibility, GPS tracking, ridership records, and routing tools built for K-12 transportation teams.
Show families the real-time location of their child’s bus, current ETA, and timestamped ride history through a parent app activated by the district.
Track school buses with GPS updates every 5 seconds, including mileage, speeding alerts, idle alerts, geofences, and data to resolve parent questions.
Send advanced notifications when students scan on or off the bus, creating a reliable record for safety, parent updates, and transportation accountability.
Use card swipe tracking to prove which students rode which bus and when, supporting audits, special-education transportation, and documented ride history.
Turn student enrollment data into efficient bus routes, rosters, and printable route sheets, with free 90-day setup available from UniteGPS.
Sync student enrollment data directly into routing and ridership tools, reducing manual roster updates when students move or change schools.
UniteGPS turns real-time school bus GPS data into practical information families can trust. Parents see where the bus is, transportation teams reduce repetitive calls, and districts gain timestamped records to answer disputes with confidence. With optional ridership notifications and SIS-connected transportation data, the platform supports safer, clearer communication without adding a separate parent fee.
Districts use UniteGPS to improve communication, safety, routing, and transportation office efficiency every day.
UniteGPS combines practical transportation technology with long-term customer commitment.
Built from the original parent need: knowing when the school bus will arrive.
FERPA compliant tools help districts protect student transportation data responsibly.
Founder-led development means product decisions stay close to real district feedback.
Unlimited live support avoids ticket queues and helps districts solve issues faster.
Meet the founders behind the Crosswalk platform.
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. Parents can use the UniteGPS parent school bus tracking app on their phone after their school district activates the service. The app shows the bus location in real time, estimated arrival information, and timestamped ride history. Basic real-time tracking is included with Tier 2, while advanced scan-on and scan-off notifications are available with Tier 3.
Get clear answers about parent app setup, pricing, and implementation.
Supports responsible student data protection practices.
Trusted by K-12 transportation teams nationwide.
Founder-led company building transportation software since 2014.
Tell us about your fleet size and parent communication goals. The UniteGPS team can explain setup, pricing tiers, GPS tracking, and parent app options clearly.
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.