UniteGPS helps K-12 transportation teams replace spreadsheets, paper maps, and disconnected tools with one integrated platform for routing, GPS tracking, parent communication, student ridership, driver navigation, and reporting. Built from real district feedback since 2014, Crosswalk K-12 gives administrators clearer visibility, safer operations, and defensible data without the complexity of legacy transportation software.
Integrated routing, GPS, communication, ridership, optimization, and reporting tools built 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.
Learn More →UniteGPS starts by learning your school bus fleet size, route structure, bell times, student data sources, and current pain points. This helps the team recommend the right tier and prepare a setup plan that fits your transportation department.
The team helps connect your student information system, including PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, or Harmony. Daily data feeds reduce duplicate entry and flag new students, address changes, and disenrollments for faster route updates.
Routes, stops, zones, rosters, and turn-by-turn directions are built inside the platform. Optimization tools can identify consolidations, balance loads, reduce mileage, and create before-and-after evidence for leadership or board review.
Depending on your tier, UniteGPS activates parent messaging, GPS tracking, driver route tools, ridership scanning, inspections, and reporting. Hardware such as GPS devices or driver tablets is configured for active customers when required.
UniteGPS trains staff and drivers to use the system confidently, then continues with live in-house support. The platform grows with your district from basic routing to GPS tracking, parent apps, tablets, and reimbursement documentation.
Districts nationwide use UniteGPS to simplify routes, reduce calls, and make transportation easier to trust.
UniteGPS combines practical transportation tools with long-term partnership and responsive support. 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.
UniteGPS protects student transportation records with FERPA-compliant practices built for K-12 district needs.
UniteGPS protects student transportation records with FERPA-compliant practices built for K-12 district needs.
The platform grew from real district feedback, not investor pressure or private equity timelines.
Routing, GPS, parent communication, ridership, tablets, inspections, and reporting work in one system.
Live in-house support and named implementation contacts help districts launch confidently and train drivers.
Built by founders who understand real transportation challenges.
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.
That's handled with day-of-the-week routing — a student can ride Route 2 during week A and Route 3 during week B, or use different stops on different days, for split-custody and dual-address situations.
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. You'll know where the bus is 24/7 — even when the ignition and engine aren't live, you can still track 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.
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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Student data protection for school transportation operations.
Trusted by districts across the United States.
Student data protection for school transportation operations.
Trusted by districts across the United States.
More than a decade focused on transportation technology.
