School bus tracking with live GPS, routes, and pickup updates
Plan routes and pickup points, assign students and staff to them, and follow every bus live. Families linked to a student are notified when the route starts and when their child is picked up or dropped off.
Included in Orbit at no extra cost, along with every other module.
Next stop in 6 min
- Green ParkPicked up
- Lake ViewPicked up
- MG RoadApproaching
- School gateScheduled
What changes when Transport moves into Orbit
- Parents call the office all morning asking where the bus is.
- Route lists live in a driver's notebook.
- Transport fees are billed separately and reconciled by hand.
- Fewer "where's the bus?" calls. Families can see the bus and its ETA themselves.
- A record of every trip. Pickups and drops are logged against each student.
- Billing beside tuition. Transport fees sit next to tuition, not in a separate book.
Route 4 on a rainy morning
The driver starts the route session in the app, and Route 4 appears on the live map with an estimated arrival time for the next stop. Families linked to students on the route are notified that the bus has left.
Traffic builds near the market. Parents watch the ETA on the map instead of calling the office. As each child boards, the pickup is recorded against their name, so the school knows exactly who is on the bus.
What the Transport module does
Routes and pickup points
Create routes with their stops. Students and teachers can request a new pickup point.
Vehicles and drivers
Keep vehicle records, including maintenance mode, and approve driver profiles.
Live GPS and ETA
Drivers start a route session, and the bus appears live with an estimated arrival time.
Pickup and drop events
Each student is recorded as picked up or dropped off on each route, every day.
Family notifications
Linked parents and guardians are notified when the route starts and ends, and at pickup and drop.
Transport fees
Fee policies, fare preview, waivers, and settlements, exportable to CSV.
Up and running in 3 steps
- 01
Plan routes
Add vehicles, drivers, routes, and pickup points.
- 02
Allocate riders
Assign students and staff to a route and a pickup point.
- 03
Run it live
Drivers start the trip, the bus shows live, and families get updates.
Built for each role
- Transport manager & admin
Manage routes, vehicles, drivers, and allocations.
- Drivers
Start and end route sessions and record pickups and drops.
- Students & families
Follow the bus live and get pickup and drop updates.
The driver starts a route session in the app. The bus location and ETA then update live, and linked families are notified at the route's key moments.
Yes. Orbit shows how a driver's leave affects their route, and lets you reassign a driver for the day.
Yes. Set transport fee policies, preview fares, apply waivers, and export settlements to CSV.
Modules that connect with Transport
See Orbit against your school's week.
Tell us your role and institution. We will walk the jobs your office repeats every week — not a generic slide deck.
- Attendance, diary, and same-day parent alerts
- Fees, dues, and the modules your office actually uses
- Admin, teacher, student, and parent portals — not a generic deck
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