One connected platform for modern school transportation management
School transportation is causing a Transportation Anxiety Crisis
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Discover a better way: Zum’s Connected Mobility Experience
Deliver students on time and ready to learn
AI-driven tools keep drivers informed, routes optimized, and students on time so the school day starts right.
Inspire trust and confidence from families
Real-time visibility and proactive communications give families the confidence that their student is safe.
Empower districts to do more with less
Unified data and smart automation help districts reduce costs, right-size their fleet, and do more with every available resource.
CMX is a unified, integrated, and intelligent system
- Student & Guardian
- School & Districts
- Teachers & Staff
- Yards & Operations
- Drivers
- AI + Intelligence
- Mobility logistics
- Unified Data Cloud
- Integration & Infrastructure
- Fleet & Yard Ops
- Business Services
- Trust and safety
- Energy & Resilience
- Expert workforce
- Yards
- Fleet & Hardware
- Electrification
Connect and coordinate people, vehicles, and operations in real-time
Orchestrate and coordinate each route
- AI-powered ride tracking and ETAs
- School and district dashboards
- Student and parent mobile apps
- Yard and operator command center
- Driver app with route and student info
- Real-time exception and issue handling
Keep everyone operating from the same reality
- Predictive AI and self-learning navigation
- Open APIs and SIS integration
- Real-time mobility logistics engine
- Role-based access and enterprise security
- Centralized data cloud
- Scalable cloud infrastructure
Handle real-world operations across people, fleet, yards, and electrification
- Dynamic dispatch and adaptive routing
- Incident and driver performance management
- Fleet and yard management
- Business services and invoicing
- RFID ridership and safety technology
- EV fleet and energy resilience
Bring the mobility experience to life
- Expert driver workforce and training
- RFID hardware and onboard technology
- Yard and depot network
- Real-time GPS and IoT sensors
- Modern bus and van fleet
- Electrification and charging infrastructure
I have closely worked with the Zum team over the last 7 years, and have observed first-hand the benefit of applying their technology to solve our complex day-to-day operations needs.
With Zūm CMX, we save about $3.5 million on a yearly basis, just by reducing the number of routes. We reduced routes by 10% immediately, right when we implemented it. All of our key metrics and KPIs improved right away.
Zūm CMX gives us so much visibility and insight into what's happening in our school transportation. We can see ahead of time that a bus is running late, track that route, and proactively adjust it to make sure it arrives on time. Parents are able to track their bus and get real time ETAs, so they know exactly where their child's bus is at. The software and the technology are great, but the real value is the peace of mind and communication that they provide.
Zūm just brought the overall student mobility operation and the experience to a whole new level. Zūm really focuses on the entire experience not just for the students, but for the school districts as a whole. They completely full-circled the operation by improving communication with families and with us. They also offered us a full EV system that really put the cherry on top of the entire operation. It was a no-brainer to choose Zūm.
Zūm's proven track record, along with its enhanced communication and equity-focused decision making, has greatly benefited our students, families, and drivers in Kansas City. We appreciate their commitment to safety, efficiency, transparency, and student-centered approach, and have been excited to partner with them.
Frequently asked questions
A school transportation management system, sometimes called a school bus management system, is a software platform that helps school districts plan, operate, and monitor student transportation. Unlike general-purpose logistics software, a school transportation management system is purpose-built for K-12, handling routing, scheduling, real-time tracking, parent communications, driver management, and compliance in one unified platform. Zum CMX is Zum's school transportation management system.
A school transportation management system centralizes all the moving parts of district transportation, including routing, scheduling, fleet tracking, driver coordination, and parent communications, into one platform. For districts, this means fewer manual processes, faster response to disruptions, better visibility across operations, and improved on-time performance for students.
School districts that adopt a transportation management system benefit from reduced operating costs, improved on-time performance, better parent communication, and greater visibility into fleet and driver operations. Zum CMX gives district transportation teams real-time data and automated workflows that replace manual processes, reducing errors, lowering costs, and improving the student experience.
