UniteGPS helps K-12 leaders build safer, more transparent student transportation with integrated routing, live GPS tracking, ridership records, driver tablets, and automated parent notifications. Great student transportation starts with great leaders, and we build both — Crosswalk K-12 reduces office calls, simplifies daily dispatching, and gives families dependable bus arrival visibility while our team helps your department go from good to great.
Integrated tools for routing, visibility, safety, communication, and daily transportation operations — backed by people who make your team better.
Build routes from your student data without technical expertise. Crosswalk K-12 assigns students to stops and zones, supports transfer points, double runs, and day-of-the-week routing, and lets you drag stops between routes instantly.
Learn More →Give families their child’s stop and pickup and drop-off times by email and SMS, broadcast route changes, and send weather or emergency alerts, replacing manual phone trees and the multiple separate apps parents juggle today.
Learn More →Sync daily with PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, or Harmony, even without the SIS transportation module. A daily action center flags new students, address changes, and disenrollments so your routing stays current automatically.
Crosswalk K-12 brings routing, GPS tracking, parent communication, ridership records, and driver tablet tools into one transportation management system. But we do more than run your operation — we help you master it. District teams reduce manual work, improve safety documentation, support reimbursement reporting, and keep families informed with live bus arrival visibility. UniteGPS is the guide behind the platform, backing it with unlimited live support from K-12 specialists and a 90-day free trial.
K-12 leaders use UniteGPS to simplify routing, improve visibility, and transform departments they inherited into ones they are proud to run.
Every competitor sells software and walks away. We stay, we teach, and we help you build a department you can be proud of.
Built specifically around school district routing, ridership, driver, parent, and dispatch needs — by a team that knows this work firsthand.
Built specifically around school district routing, ridership, driver, parent, and dispatch needs — by a team that knows this work firsthand.
Unlimited live support from K-12 specialists who guide your team like partners — no ticket queues, no walking away after the sale.
Student data protection is central to platform design, SIS sync, and parent communication.
Over 100 school districts nationwide rely on UniteGPS transportation tools every day.
Founder-led transportation technology and knowledge, 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 90-day free trial covers routing setup and your data feed at no cost, so you can build routes and see the platform work before any invoice. GPS units and tablets are quoted separately with year-to-year annual invoicing and no multi-year commitment. Your specialist walks you through exactly what is free during the trial and what a full deployment looks like, so there are no surprises when the fiscal year opens.
Yes. Crosswalk K-12 syncs with PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, and other student information systems to keep enrollment, addresses, and stop assignments current. If your district does not have the PowerSchool transportation module, our team helps you identify bus riders and set up the data feed so the sync still works. This removes the daily manual entry that slows transportation departments down.
The parent app is route-aware, so notifications reflect where the bus actually is along its route, not just how close it is on a map. Families see route and stop details and an approaching-bus alert timed to their child’s stop. This answers the questions parents used to call in for and lets your team focus on dispatch and the operational decisions that make a department great.
Yes. Custody and dual-address families are common, and Crosswalk K-12 supports day-of-the-week routing so a student can ride one route on certain days and a different route on others. You assign the student to the right stops without rebuilding routes each time, and SIS sync keeps address changes current. It is one of the setup questions our specialists walk through during onboarding.
You do not build it alone. Our implementation team sets up your routes and data feed for you, and we can use GPS route history to reconstruct routes when a district has little or no existing documentation. Onboarding is framed as professional development, not just software training, so your team learns how great transportation operations think while the heavy lifting is handled for you.
Support comes from real K-12 specialists inside our organization, not a chatbot or an overseas call center. Every plan includes unlimited live support with no ticket queues, and many directors tell us they have spoken with several of our people by name. We stay after the sale, teach your team, and check in on the department as a whole, not just the software.
UniteGPS is FERPA compliant, and student data protection is central to how the platform, SIS sync, and parent communication are built. We work with your district’s data use agreement, apply encryption and clear data handling policies, and will sign your own governance forms. Districts can improve communication and operations while handling student transportation data responsibly.
Yes. Contracts are year-to-year with annual invoicing and no multi-year lock-in, which fits boards and district attorneys who limit long-term agreements. We can also send the contract ahead of July 1 so your district can submit payment the moment the new fiscal year opens. Your specialist confirms these terms in writing on the quote.
Talk with a UniteGPS K-12 specialist who has been where you are and can guide your routing and parent notification decisions.
Supports protected handling of student transportation data.
Bootstrapped platform guided by direct founder involvement.
Supports protected handling of student transportation data.
Bootstrapped platform guided by direct founder involvement.
Used by over 100 school districts nationwide.
