Route Optimization
Turns student enrollment data into efficient bus routes, rosters, and printable route sheets, replacing paper maps and manual guesswork with a real routing system.
Give your transportation department the tools to run tighter routes, track every bus in real time, and keep parents informed. UniteGPS combines routing, GPS tracking, and ridership data into one platform built specifically for K-12 districts across the country.
A full suite of tools that take districts from paper route maps to a fully connected, real-time transportation system.
Turns student enrollment data into efficient bus routes, rosters, and printable route sheets, replacing paper maps and manual guesswork with a real routing system.
Live GPS tracking updating every 5 seconds, even when the ignition is off, with mileage categorization and speeding, idle, and geofence alerts.
Shows parents exactly where their child's bus is with ETA and timestamped ride history, cutting down calls to the transportation office.
Card swipe on/off tracking that proves which students rode which bus and when, with a complete safety-compliance audit trail.
Automatically syncs enrollment data from your Student Information System into routing and ridership tracking, eliminating manual roster uploads.
Converts scan-verified special-education rides and categorized mileage into billing-ready records to help districts recover reimbursable transportation costs.
Winter mornings, snow delays, and last-minute route changes demand a system that keeps up. UniteGPS gives transportation directors a single, integrated platform for routing, GPS tracking, ridership, and parent communication, so districts nationwide can replace spreadsheets and guesswork with dependable, real-time data.
See how transportation departments across the country use UniteGPS to run safer, more efficient bus operations.
A transportation platform built by founders who understand what districts actually need.
Fully bootstrapped since 2014 and built entirely from client revenue, not outside investor pressure.
Trusted by over 100 K-12 school districts across the United States for daily transportation operations.
Reach a real person anytime, with no ticket queues, whether you're in Texas heat or a Maine snowstorm.
Student data protection built into every tier, keeping districts compliant with federal privacy regulations.
The founders behind Crosswalk, built from real district experience.
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.
It's an integrated platform that combines route optimization, GPS bus tracking, parent notifications, student ridership tracking, and SIS integration into one system. Instead of managing routes on paper or spreadsheets, districts get real-time data on bus locations, student boarding, and route efficiency, all synced automatically with their student information system.
Talk to our transportation technology experts to see how UniteGPS fits your district.
Meets federal student data privacy standards
Trusted by school districts nationwide since 2014
Built on client trust, not private equity
Tell us about your fleet size and current challenges, and we'll show you exactly how UniteGPS can help.
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.