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Know where the bus is, without calling the office

Live bus tracking, predicted arrival times and boarding alerts for families; route optimisation and a live map for the transport office; turn-by-turn voice navigation for drivers. All on maps we host for you, not on Google Maps.

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For families

Their child's bus, their stop, nobody else's

Families see their own child's bus live and the predicted arrival at their stop, plus today's trip events. They never see other riders or stops.

  1. Driver app. Sends the bus position every 2 seconds from the driver's phone or tablet. No separate tracker is required.

  2. CampusTip. Combines it with live traffic and asks your maps engine for the arrival time at each stop.

  3. Family app. Shows only the family's own child's bus and stop, with a push when it is about five minutes away or running late.

  4. Boarding. The driver taps Board, Absent or Alight; the family is notified automatically.

Illustration: a school bus follows its route on a map; each stop lights up as the bus serves it, and the family is alerted before the bus reaches their stop.Your stop
Illustrative map, not real data.

Recorded from the app

The family view and the driver view

Clips from the CampusTip demo environment with sample data.

Parent: live bus tracking

A parent opens the family home, switches to their child's bus card and follows the bus moving on the live map with the predicted arrival at the family's own stop.

Driver: turn-by-turn navigation

A bus driver opens their route with stops and boarding counts, starts navigation and follows simulated turn-by-turn directions with the ETA and remaining distance.

For the transport office and drivers

Plan, dispatch and drive

Live transport map

Every route on one map: on route, on time, late or off route, with the next stop and a traffic-aware arrival time.

Family bus tracking

Families see their own child's bus and the predicted arrival at their stop, never other riders or stops.

Arrival and boarding alerts

A notification when the bus is about five minutes away, more than 10 minutes late, and when the child boards, alights or is marked absent.

Route optimisation

Groups riders into stops within a maximum walk, then builds routes within capacity, wheelchair positions and maximum ride time. Compare with the current plan before applying.

New-rider placement and live rerouting

The best stop for a mid-year rider, and when a bus leaves its path or traffic changes, only that bus is recalculated.

Driver app

Pre-trip and post-trip inspections, stop manifests, boarding taps that work offline, SOS with location, and turn-by-turn navigation with natural voice guidance.

India transport compliance

An attendant per route, over-speed alerts (40 km/h by default, configurable), driver licence and police verification records with expiry alerts, and a CCTV stream link per bus.

Works when the signal drops

Boarding taps work offline and sync when the phone is back online.

Self-hosted maps

Stackwick Maps: your maps, your data

Maps, routing, live traffic and arrival prediction run on Stackwick Maps, which we host for you.

  • No per-map-load or per-route fees from a mapping provider.
  • No third-party tracking: students' locations and home addresses are never sent to an outside map service; even map tiles are served by your CampusTip server.
  • Map data built for your state or region from open data: OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, plus US Census TIGER/Line address ranges in the US, with attribution on every map.
  • Everything runs on that data: route optimisation, live tracking, family ETAs, turn-by-turn navigation and address search.
  • Natural neural voice guidance generated on your server; no speech is sent to a cloud service.

Kansas City demo district

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school buses in the sample district, on real Kansas City roads, with routes built by the school-bus optimiser.

A fictional district on real roads. Ask for a guided demo.

Fleet and compliance

Fleet maintenance

Inspections that ground a bus automatically when a critical item fails, work orders, fuel and driver compliance.

Fleet overview

In service, grounded, in the shop, open defects, overdue services, expiring documents and fuel cost.

Inspections

Pre-trip and post-trip inspections that ground a bus automatically when a critical item fails and open a work order.

Driver compliance

Licences, medical cards and endorsements (US) or licence and police verification (India), with expiry alerts.

Hardware: bus GPS comes from the driver's phone or tablet. Speed governors, CCTV cameras, stop-arm cameras and panic-button hardware remain your equipment; CampusTip links to the camera stream and raises its own over-speed alerts.

See live bus tracking on a sample district

A guided demo on a sample district or institution, tailored to the modules you care about. A live demo environment is available on request.

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