School Bus Tracker App for Parents

Give greater visibility to parents about school bus locations. This app tracks bus location using GPS data from multiple vendors and AI to provide accurate information to users.

Chipmunk Puts You in Control With:

Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA)

Chipmunk provides parents with an ETA summary for all of their children on one screen, making it easy to see all the key details.

Time Until Arrival

Get real time updates on when a bus will reach the pick-up and drop-off location.

Late Buses in Red

Know if a bus coming to pick or drop your child is running late with color cues.

Student Confidentiality

Compare and calculate real time arrival estimates for each bus stop. View a live map view of the school bus while it’s en route, with built-in data privacy and confidentiality tools.

Two-Way Messaging

Alert parents about delays and cancellations, reducing the number of phone calls you receive.

  • Personalized information for each child
  • Cancellations and major delays
  • General notices from the board

Save your department time and money by allowing parents quick and easy access to information affecting school transportation.

Student Scans

Chipmunk displays the address and time for every student that scans off and on a bus to improve safety.

This functionality requires districts to have dedicated scanners and student bus cards.

Getting Started

The Chipmunk app is the same for everyone. There’s an easy one-time setup process where parents would:

  • Choose the correct school district / transportation authority or enter a Quick Code password
  • Create a parent account and subscribe to one or more student’s information

Setting up students does require some specific information to prevent unauthorized access.

Chipmunk is available for both Android and Apple devices

How Chipmunk Works

The Tracker Service (TS), as part of our cloud hosted network, uses the planned data from your routing database in conjunction with the live GPS data to determine and calculate ETA information for the buses and bus stops across the system. The TS is an integral part of the solution.

To ensure the accuracy of which vehicle is servicing which route each day, it is recommended that either our affiliated bus substitution and turns apps (available separately) are provided to your drivers in order to establish and provide reliable information to your parents.


Finally, parents use the Chipmunk app to view their child’s information with live data relating to each student’s travel and bus stop information.

Support for GPS Market Leaders

This live app is based on GPS and imbedded AI technology that offers accurate information to users and is the only app that can simultaneously process GPS data from multiple GPS vendor solutions within a single transportation system environment.