Designed to keep operations  running

Manage the people, vehicles, and systems that keep student transportation safe, reliable, and running every day.

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Why Zum

Less guesswork and more control

From vehicle availability to driver readiness, Zum gives your operations team the tools to start every day prepared and end it without surprises.
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Stay on schedule

Real-time route visibility and standby driver management mean your team can respond to changes fast and keep every run covered.

Keep fleets road-ready

Predictive maintenance scheduling, automated inspections, and live diagnostic alerts keep vehicles on the road and out of the shop.

Easily manage the workforce

Recruit, onboard, certify, and coach drivers in one place, with automated timesheets and payroll integration.

Zum CMX

About the Zum experience for yards and operators

Real-time data, AI-powered tools, and streamlined workflows give your team the visibility and control to run a yard that delivers every day.
Dashboards and Apps

Command center for your operation

One unified dashboard gives your team the real-time intelligence they need to manage routes, drivers, and vehicles without the noise.
  • Map-based route visibility
Real-time view of all live routes and ETAs so dispatchers can stay ahead of every issue before it reaches a student.
  • Route ownership and assignment
Manage standby drivers, split or merge rides, and ensure full route coverage with assignment tracking built for daily operations.
  • Digital time tracking
Eliminate manual errors with automated timesheets, digital bus reports, and direct payroll integration that pays your team accurately and on time.
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Fleet Maintenance

A fleet that’s always road-ready

Zum's end-to-end maintenance tools keep every vehicle in your yard serviced, inspected, and ready to run, so breakdowns stay in the shop and off the road.
  • Proactive maintenance scheduling
AI-driven service forecasting, preventative maintenance reminders, and automatic safety recall alerts help your team stay ahead of vehicle issues.
  • Digitized inspections and defect tracking
Pre and post-ride inspections are completed on-device, with real-time defect prioritization and a complete service history recorded for every vehicle.
  • Parts, work orders, and diagnostics
Manage parts inventory, procurement, and detailed work orders from one place, with diagnostic monitoring, fuel usage tracking, and predictive failure analysis.
Mobility and Logistics

Resolve issues faster, every time

Complete incident reconstruction capabilities and instant access to ride-level data mean your team can investigate, respond, and close issues with confidence, without the guesswork.
  • Smart investigations
Instantly access GPS traces, timing data, and driver behavior records to reconstruct events and resolve incidents quickly.
  • Access student and ride data
Pull up student profiles, contact info, and ride history in seconds, giving dispatchers everything they need to act without phone calls.
  • Detect operational exceptions
Automatically surface no-shows, late departures, and route gaps the moment they occur to intervene before delays affect families.
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
Transportation Teams
Drivers
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Parents and students

Behind every reliable ride is a yard keeping routes covered. Standby management and automatic reassignment mean families are never left waiting. No-show detection protects students. Your work delivers peace of mind parents expect.
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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

You turn district plans into dependable daily execution. Detailed ride forensics give administrators the visibility and accountability they need. Strong route coverage and fleet utilization support the savings districts expect. Operations run smoothly.
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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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A transportation team member reviewing bus routes on Zum's Route Explorer, with a map view showing stops and route lines.

Transportation teams

Work from a unified control center that surfaces exceptions before they reach students. Monitor rides in real time with ETAs and anomaly detection. Resolve issues with task-driven workflows. Optimize routes using predictive analytics.
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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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