UniteGPS helps K-12 districts simplify student transportation with one integrated platform for routing, GPS tracking, parent communication, ridership records, SIS synchronization, and operational reporting. Built from real district feedback and supported by a hands-on team, Crosswalk gives transportation directors clearer data, safer daily operations, and fewer manual tasks from the first route setup.
Integrated tools for routing, tracking, communication, student safety, reporting, and transportation cost control.
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 starts by learning your school bus fleet size, current routing process, SIS environment, parent communication needs, and reporting requirements. This helps identify whether Routing Essentials, GPS Tracking & Routing, or the Tablet Suite best matches your district’s operational priorities.
The team sets up your routes and SIS data feed during the 90-day risk-free trial. Student records, stops, addresses, zones, and route assignments are organized so your department can start from a working transportation system.
Districts can add GPS devices, parent app access, driver tablets, ridership cards, inspection workflows, and communication tools based on the selected tier. Hardware is labeled, assigned, and configured for practical school bus fleet deployment.
UniteGPS provides human implementation support, driver training, and operational guidance to help staff actually use the platform. The goal is adoption across transportation directors, dispatchers, drivers, administrators, and families.
Once live, districts use analytics, mileage records, route optimization, speed and idle alerts, ridership logs, and board-ready reports to refine routes, document decisions, reduce calls, and improve daily transportation reliability.
Districts use UniteGPS to reduce calls, improve visibility, and defend transportation decisions with better data.
UniteGPS combines practical transportation software with hands-on support and long-term accountability. 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 a decade of focused development shaped by real district transportation challenges.
More than a decade of focused development shaped by real district transportation challenges.
Routing, GPS, parent communication, ridership, tablets, inspections, and reporting work together.
A named implementation contact and live in-house support help teams adopt the system.
FERPA-compliant tools protect student data while supporting safer, better-documented transportation operations.
Founder-led experts building practical transportation technology for districts.
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.
Yes. The integration supports PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, and Harmony, so a statewide migration between systems doesn't strand your transportation data.
Very little heavy lifting on your end — we set up your routes for you so you don't feel overwhelmed by a big project. A named implementation contact builds your routes with you and trains drivers to adoption, and the free 90-day setup covers it.
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.
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.
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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Protects sensitive student transportation data.
Trusted by districts across the United States.
Protects sensitive student transportation data.
Trusted by districts across the United States.
Built independently for long-term customer success.
