San Bernardino City USD awards five-year transportation contract to Zum

San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) recently awarded a five-year transportation contract, totaling $79.5 million, to Zum to provide safe, efficient and sustainable, tech-enabled student transportation.

“San Bernardino City Unified looks forward to adding Zum to our transportation system,” said Marie Espinosa, Director of Transportation, San Bernardino City Unified School District. “Our students deserve the best, and Zum will help us bring a higher level of service to our school community. San Bernardino City Unified School District challenged all of our transportation partners to add real-time communication about the location of buses for parents and invest in a greener fleet that will make neighborhoods along bus routes healthier. Zum was chosen because they met our high expectations.”

Benefits of contracting with Zum include:

• Safer and more reliable: Through the Zum app, parents are able to view the complete profile of their child’s driver, along with real-time information about vehicle location and their child’s pickup or drop-off time and status. District administrators and operators are able to track rides in a map view from start to finish, and routes are adjusted in real time to account for absent students or traffic issues. At the same time, drivers are able to preview all students on assigned routes, along with important supplemental information for each student where necessary.
• Cleaner and greener: As the first and only 100% carbon neutral student transportation company in the U.S., Zum is committed to transitioning school bus fleets to electric vehicles.

Other local districts to partner with Zum include: Los Angeles Unified School District, San Francisco Unified School District and Oakland Unified School District.