Keep everyone operating from the same reality
Empower all stakeholders with the information, data, communications, security, and AI-driven functionality they need.
One intelligent platform, more visibility and efficiency
Deploy intelligence that thinks ahead, so you don’t have to
Keep families informed with arrival estimates that automatically adjust to live road conditions, traffic, and unexpected delays.
Routes get smarter every day as the system continuously learns from real-world conditions and traffic patterns
Cut fuel costs and reduce ride times by automatically identifying the most efficient routes across your entire fleet.
Respond to absences, emergencies, and last-minute changes instantly, with no scrambling required.
Get ahead of operational issues by identifying potential problems, from mechanical failures to scheduling conflicts, before they escalate.
Keep safety at the center of every decision by monitoring risk factors and driver behavior across every route.
Orchestrate and coordinate each route
Build, refine, and publish AI-powered routes in minutes, giving every student the most efficient path to school.
Eliminate conflicts and maximize efficiency with intelligent, automated planning that keeps pace with students throughout the school year.
Catch emerging vehicle issues early, to ensure that every bus on the road is in optimum condition.
Get complete visibility into every vehicle across every yard in your district, all in one place.
Ensure that every special trip has the same reliability and oversight as your daily routes.
Manage vendors on a single platform to keep them coordinated, compliant, and accountable.
Turn your transportation data into action
Every student, route, vehicle, and yard lives in one unified system, eliminating the data gaps that create operational blind spots.
Live vehicle data streams directly into the platform so you always know exactly what is happening on the road, in real time.
Surface the insights that matter most and use them to continuously improve performance, efficiency, and outcomes across your district.
Integrate to one place to operate across your district
Reach every family in their preferred language, ensuring clear and consistent communication across your community.
Coordinate seamlessly across third-party providers without losing visibility, consistency, or control of the student experience.
Connect your existing tools to Zum CMX through open, flexible APIs that let data flow freely across your operation.
Assign every stakeholder the specific access they need through role-based controls and secure authentication.
Safeguard student and family data with enterprise-grade security built into every layer of the platform.
Stay ahead of regulatory requirements with compliance controls embedded directly into your workflows.
Keep rosters, schedules, and routes accurate and up to date with direct sync from your Student Information System.
Manage your electric fleet's charging needs alongside daily operations so every vehicle is ready when the school day begins.
A resilient, auto-scaling AWS-powered backbone keeps your transportation platform fast, available, and reliable, no matter the scale.
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.
Part of a unified, integrated, and intelligent system
CMX Apps & Dashboards
CMX Platform
CMX Operations
CMX People & Infrastructure
See how Zum CMX supports future-ready transportation solutions
Home-to-School
Safe, predictable, and connected rides for the daily journey to and from school.
Electrification
Transition your fleet to clean energy with Zum's end-to-end EV infrastructure and support.
Frequently asked questions
AI improves school bus transportation by continuously optimizing routes, predicting problems before they happen, and automating decisions that once required manual work. Zum's platform uses self-learning navigation to make routes smarter every day, dynamic dispatch to respond instantly to unexpected changes, and predictive resolution to flag mechanical or scheduling issues before they affect students.
A connected mobility platform links every part of student transportation, including vehicles, drivers, operators, schools, and families, through shared, real-time data. Zum's Connected Mobility Experience (CMX) is that platform for K-12: a unified, AI-driven cloud that keeps routing, operations, and communications aligned so the whole system runs from one source of truth.
Zum's platform centralizes real-time student transportation data, including routes, vehicles, ridership, and on-time performance, into a single unified data cloud. That data becomes actionable insight through dashboards and reporting that help districts continuously improve efficiency, on-time performance, and student outcomes, instead of reacting to problems after they happen.
Zum's platform integrates directly with a district's core systems, including its Student Information System (SIS), so rosters, schedules, and routes stay accurate automatically. Its secure, unified infrastructure brings vendors, data, and compliance requirements into one place, replacing disconnected point solutions and eliminating manual data entry across the operation.
Yes. Scheduling is one capability within Zum's broader platform. Its school bus scheduling software automatically builds and updates timetables based on student rosters, bell times, and route parameters, and stays in sync with routing so schedules and routes always align. Scheduling works alongside AI routing, live data, and system integrations rather than as a standalone tool.
