Designed to keep every route on track

Give your transportation team a real-time operations hub that connects routes, drivers, vehicles, and data so they can resolve issues fast and keep every student moving safely.

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Why Zum

Less firefighting, more control, and an operation you can count on

Stop improvising around disconnected systems and constant phone calls. Zum gives transportation teams the AI-powered tools and unified visibility they need to plan smarter, respond faster, and keep every route running without surprises.
Resolve issues fast

Proactive anomaly detection and a digital Dispatch Control Center help your team identify and recover from problems in real time.

Build and optimize routes

AI-powered route planning and machine learning models minimize ride times, maximize vehicle utilization, and adapt automatically.

Connect your entire operation

A single map-based view of every live route, driver, and vehicle for a full overview of your operations, with all the data they need.

Zum CMX

The Zum experience for transportation teams

A purpose-built operations platform that gives transportation teams real-time visibility, AI-powered planning tools, and ride-level intelligence to coordinate every route and deliver a reliable experience every school day.
Dashboards and Apps

A dashboard for proactive operations

One unified dashboard gives dispatchers and transportation managers the live data needed to stay proactive, manage routes, and keep students on time.
  • Map-based route visibility
A bird's-eye view and real-time ETAs let your team instantly identify which routes need attention and act before delays reach students or families.
  • Route ownership
Manage route assignments, planned absences, and standby driver coverage, with auto reassignment tools that eliminate the need for constant phone calls.
  • Detailed ride forensics
Ride reconstruction tools give your team instant access to GPS traces, timing data, driver behavior, and student ride history to investigate and resolve issues.
A Zum fleet map showing driver locations across a yard, with a driver roster panel and live vehicle tracking details including route, speed, and fuel level.
Fleet Maintenance

Smart command center for your fleet

Zum gives transportation teams a real-time, AI-powered view of every vehicle across every yard so you always know what is available, where it is, and whether it is ready to run.
  • Real-time vehicle inventory and availability
Location-based inventory tracking and a unified view across all yards for teams to see available vehicles, and manage cross-yard transfers.
  • Vehicle utilization and assignment
Visualize asset assignments across time and calendar views to optimize vehicle utilization, proactively identify gaps, and make smarter deployment decisions.
  • Forecasting and cost visibility
ML-based forecasting, combined with expense tracking and total cost of ownership reporting to plan ahead and reduce extra costs.
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Mobility and Logistics

Shorter routes, smarter operations

AI-optimized routing, adaptive route execution, and real-time vehicle diagnostics keep every route reliable and efficient.
  • Less time on the bus
ML-powered route optimization minimizes average student ride times and scheduling conflicts, so your team spends less time managing exceptions and more time running a smooth operation.
  • More routes, fewer resources
Fleet usage tools identify over- and underutilized routes, helping teams right-size vehicle assignments and ensure full coverage without unnecessary cost.
  • Better air quality
Zum's growing electric vehicle offering helps reduce emissions across routes, bringing a cleaner environment for your community.
Zum's Route Explorer interface showing a bus route map with stops, unassigned students, and a list of nearby route options with times and distances.
Testimonials

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.

Kim Raney
Executive Director of Transportation, Procurement, & Warehouse - Business Operations
Oakland Unified School District

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.

Tomas Beccar-Varela
Executive Director
San Francisco Unified School District

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.

Paul Rosencrans
Transportation Director
Fresno Unified School District

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.

Kim Raney
Executive Director of Transportation, Procurement, & Warehouse - Business Operations
Oakland Unified School District

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.

Dr. Jennifer Collier
Superintendent
Kansas City Public Schools
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Connected Mobility Experience

Connecting people, vehicles and operations in real-time

The Zum CMX platform is the engine behind every smooth morning. It connects students, parents, drivers, and districts into one seamless system — so everyone has the right information at the right moment.
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CMX Apps & Dashboards

Students, parents and drivers stay informed through Zum’s app. Operators, districts and schools follow along via their apps and dashboard. Everyone is along for the ride with an experience tailored to their needs. 
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CMX Platform

An AI-driven, unified cloud platform keeps everyone operating from the same reality.
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CMX Operations

Create a calm, safe, dependable student mobility experience with a system that handles real-world operations across people, fleet, yards, and electrification.
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CMX People & Infrastructure

Bring the mobility experience to life through the staff, drivers, depots, yards, buses, vans, hardware, and charging infrastructure in the physical world.
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Who We Help

See how we support other users across the transportation experience

Zum serves everyone in the school transportation ecosystem, from parents and students to the operators who keep the whole system moving.
Parents and Students
District Administrators
School Administrators
Drivers
Yards and Operators
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Parents and students

Keep families informed with real-time ride tracking, automated pickup and drop off notifications, and self-service tools that replace uncertainty with confidence every school day.
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Zum dashboard showing a district administrator's ride tracking view, with a student ride log, route map, and stop details.

District administrators

Oversee district-wide transportation from a single unified platform, with real-time dashboards, on-demand reporting, and the operational intelligence to make smarter decisions and reduce costs.
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Zum dashboard showing a district administrator's ride tracking view, with a student ride log, route map, and stop details.
A school staff member checking a student trip roster on a tablet using Zum, as a student boards the school bus behind her.

School administrators

Streamline campus arrivals and departures with live ride tracking on one map view. Pull up student, route, and campus details. Issue bus cards and monitor everything anywhere.
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Drivers

Zum equips every driver with AI-optimised navigation, real-time student care instructions, and the tools to deliver safe, reliable rides so your child arrives on time, every time.
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Yards and Operators

Give operators real-time visibility across vehicles, drivers, and routes from one connected platform so every yard runs on schedule and every bus leaves road-ready.
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