Compare the Top School Transportation Software for Windows as of February 2026

What is School Transportation Software for Windows?

School transportation software is a specialized system for managing student transit operations—such as bus routing, student pickup/drop-off tracking, fleet maintenance, and parent communication—in K-12 and higher-education environments. It helps school districts, contractors, and bus fleets plan efficient routes, assign students to stops, track vehicles in real time, and communicate schedules and delays to families. Many platforms integrate with GPS/telemetry, student information systems (SIS), fleet maintenance modules, and mobile apps for drivers or parents. The software enhances safety, optimizes cost and resource use (e.g., number of buses, driver hours), and improves transparency for students, parents, and administrators. By automating manual routing, tracking, and reporting tasks, student transport software supports both operational efficiency and student-safety goals. Compare and read user reviews of the best School Transportation software for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Lynx

    Lynx

    Lynx Software

    Efficiently streamline your school bus route planning and information management. Save money with improved route efficiency and streamlined operations. Efficiently manage your fleet, drivers, students and routes. Get 24/7 live technical support from anywhere, anytime. Lynx empowers your transport department by providing multiple features to keep up with your school transport needs. Get control of your bus routing data. Easily update student information to any of your bus routes. View multiple routes at one time, set specific parameters in real-time and more. Track and monitor your vehicles plus keep track of fleet maintenance, all in real-time. Easily create customized reports to comply with transportation regulations and requirements. Easily view, map or export all of your rider pickups, special needs riders and group stops in one place.
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    Starting Price: $1,895
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    Dossier Fleet Maintenance Software
    The fleet maintenance software of choice of over 4,000 private, for-hire and public fleets, Dossier lowers costs and downtime by automating control of your fleet's records, PM scheduling, repair orders and histories, fuel costs and MPG, cost control with cost per mile/hr, parts inventory control w/ auto reordering, work pending and campaign mgmt., budget mgmt., warranty mgmt., tire mgmt., vendor & labor control, license/permit renewals, driver control, fleet benchmarking, VMRS codes & more.
    Starting Price: $1500.00/one-time/user
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    Busology

    Busology

    Busology Tech

    Busology's K-12 transportation suite includes: a unique multi-term calendar interface, vehicle and student tracking, tracking apps for parents, field trip management, operations, asset management and more! Calendar-based scheduling is easy to use and helps to build the safest and most cost-efficient runs. Student and driver information, schedule data and trip details are always on hand to keep you in the loop. Monitor location of buses and students on a live map to ensure that everyone is where they’re supposed to be. Letting families know precisely when their bus will arrive at their bus stop eliminating the need to call Transportation.
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    BusPlanner

    BusPlanner

    BusPlanner

    BusPlanner is the trusted all-in-one student transportation platform for school districts across North America. For decades, districts such as Miami-Dade (300,000+ students), Gwinnett County (180,000+ students), and Toronto District School Board (230,000+ students) have relied on BusPlanner to deliver safe, efficient, and cost-effective transportation. By streamlining complex logistics, BusPlanner helps transportation teams save tens of millions of dollars and thousands of staff hours every year. Our software is a comprehensive transportation solution that combines industry-leading routing with a complete GPS toolkit. Together, these tools provide districts with everything they need to manage routing, dispatch, field trips, parent communication, fleet management, ridership tracking, tablets, and many other capabilities — all in one seamless system. With BusPlanner, transportation teams save time, reduce costs, and deliver safer, more reliable service.
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    Versatrans

    Versatrans

    Tyler Technologies

    For more than 30 years, we have built the most intuitive, innovative, and efficient transportation management solution for school districts of all sizes across the country. Versatrans Routing & Planning™ is the standard for flexible, easy-to-use school bus routing and district planning software. Reduce workload and help reduce costs without decreasing service. Routing & Planning's rich features and versatility make it an essential tool for school bus routing, and boundary planning and redistricting.
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    TrackSchoolBus
    Transport Managers and school administrators have various tasks including student safety, addressing parent concerns, school bus routing, allocation and optimization. The TrackSchoolBus solution for schools makes all of these tasks easier with intelligent management tools, communication and reporting facilities. This solution is for governing bodies which deal with large scale school bus tracking implementation involving multiple schools & providers. It includes all features of our software for Transport Providers & more. Key concerns like policy implementation, field trips, extracurricular activities, student conduct are addressed in this solution. Our software for Transport Providers or contractors addresses key pain points such as bus fare collection, unplanned trips, routing, ensuring driver productivity and more.
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    SmartBus

    SmartBus

    Uffizio

    Priority of every school management is to provide better safety and security to the student while they are commuting from school to home and home to school. For this reason, it is important for schools to invest in a sound and secure transport management system. SmartBus, the best school bus tracking software which is divided into three parts: Parents, Driver, and School Management. It also works as a school bus management system where student safety is our main concern. Alert notification is available where you can easily manage all the activities related to scheduling, rescheduling, managing routes and pick up & drop location.
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    Together School

    Together School

    Together School

    Together School simplifies the management of transporting students between home and school as well as on school related trips. Our solution enables effective communication with parents, drivers, monitors, and students using the Together School App. The Together School Transportation Module provides the school with a complete overview of all buses and students. With user-specific views, the Together School Solution contributes to a safer environment for the students, more efficient operations and better engagement with the school and it its community. The Together School Solution makes it simple: Complete overview of transportation in a single dashboard Communication and information sharing via an App for staff, parents and students Mitigating incidents Intelligent route scheduling Optimisation of routes and schedules Support for School Trips and After School Activities buses. Together School operates today in Germany, the UK, Belgium, Kenya, South Africa and the UAE.
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    GIS Routing

    GIS Routing

    Gecko Microsolutions

    Transportation Operations Manager (T.O.M.) GIS Routing is a full function routing, mapping and boundary analysis software product. T.O.M. GIS Routing is a new breed of school transportation routing products that bring GIS technology to school districts. Unlike most traditional routing products T.O.M. GIS Routing does not use a proprietary mapping tool. Instead T.O.M. was built to use the industry standard GIS mapping tool; ESRIs ArcView which STN Magazine called the de facto industry standard. By using ArcView T.O.M. GIS Routing allows you to obtain a detailed GIS enabled street map for you school district from a variety of sources. Many times you may even be able to obtain a FREE GIS street map of your school district from your local city or county. No longer do you have to pay your routing software company to create and maintain a computer street map of your school district.
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