The Smart School Shuttle Tracking System
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The Smart School Shuttle Tracking System

Safe Journeys, Reassured Parents, Efficient Transport

A mobile-based smart tracking and parent notification system that accompanies students safely and visibly on the journey from home to school and back.

For Schools, Operators, Drivers and Attendants

Professional solutions for student transport.

A Way of Working That Matches Your School's Sense of Responsibility
A Way of Working That Matches Your School's Sense of Responsibility A Way of Working That Matches Your School's Sense of Responsibility

A Way of Working That Matches Your School's Sense of Responsibility

With the vita Monitor school information app, designed for school administrators, report on and follow student transport live. It answers everything a school needs: which student travels on which shuttle, how long students keep vehicles waiting, what parents expect and complain about, and more.

  • Safety and transparency: see which students are on board in real time
  • Oversight and tracking: audit vehicle, driver and attendant documents
  • Punctual arrival: check when vehicles reach the school
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The Most Complete Solution for Student Transport The Most Complete Solution for Student Transport
The Most Complete Solution for Student Transport The Most Complete Solution for Student Transport

The Most Complete Solution for Student Transport

The vita TMS student transport management system optimises operations and administration for your business, giving an advantage in time and cost at every step. It answers all your student transport needs in a single application.

  • Online operations: pre-registration, payment, contracts and notifications
  • Route optimisation: pick-up and drop-off times and order from traffic data
  • Tallies and timesheets: payments for vehicles, attendants and drivers
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Up-to-Date Passenger Lists and Instant Messaging Up-to-Date Passenger Lists and Instant Messaging
Up-to-Date Passenger Lists and Instant Messaging Up-to-Date Passenger Lists and Instant Messaging

Up-to-Date Passenger Lists and Instant Messaging

With vita Drive TMS, your drivers and attendants get online job and location tracking through smartphone GPS — the only piece of equipment a driver needs on board, at minimal cost. Navigation, routes and pick-up and drop-off times, details of the students travelling and instant contact with parents all make their work easier.

  • Easy contact with parents and instant status alerts
  • Less waiting and shorter journeys
  • Automatic payment calculation and a detailed movement log
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For parents

Follow Your Child's Journey to School in Real Time

Where is the shuttle? Is my child on the way? One tap tells you.

Where is the shuttle? Is my child on the way? One tap tells you.

Service Details, Credentials and Live Location

You can see your child's shuttle details, journey status, planned pick-up and drop-off times, boarding and alighting addresses and travel duration. Information and credentials for the vehicle, driver, attendant or supervisor are all visible, and you can contact them from the app.

During service hours you can watch the vehicle move live on a map, see its speed and reach real-time traffic information through the congestion map. Location updates roughly every three seconds, so together with vitaDrive TMS it delivers the best mobile location tracking available.

Student transport goes fully digital: from registration to routing, from payment to invoicing, in one system.

Online Transactions and Payment Plan

The entire shuttle registration process can be completed online. You can view the service fee the system calculates by district or distance, sign your transport contract online and reach your invoices in the app.

The payment screen shows your payment plan and history, and lets you pay the operator in the app through several methods. You can see the balance outstanding or any refund due, and view the operator's bank details for a transfer.

Online Transactions and Payment Plan
Experience safe student transport — control is now in your pocket.

Experience safe student transport — control is now in your pocket.

Service Use, Safety and Notifications

You can tell your driver, attendant and operator contact through the app when your child will not be using the shuttle.

In the morning, once the driver has taken the register, reached the school and let the students off, they scan the NFC tag or QR code at the back of the vehicle with their phone to close the job. The daily tally is recorded and parents are told the vehicle arrived and was checked.

You can view every notification sent, going back in time, and personalise them. Among the seven daily alerts for approach, register and arrival, you choose which to receive by SMS, call or in-app message and adjust when they are sent.

PUSH

In-app approach alert

SMS

Approach alert by text message

Voice call

Approach alert by voice call

WhatsApp

Approach alert via WhatsApp

Feedback that keeps raising service quality and transparency.

Surveys, Ratings, Suggestions and Complaints

You can take part in the surveys your operator runs periodically, right in the app. Operator and school management use your answers to assess drivers, attendants, vehicles and the service overall, and to act on what they find.

Rate the driver and attendant who serve you, in the app. View their overall score and reviews. Your ratings are kept in complete confidence.

Send your suggestions and complaints about the service to the operator through the app. Both operator staff and school management can see your request, and its progress is tracked and reported. For questions about the app itself, 24/7 live support is available.

Surveys, Ratings, Suggestions and Complaints
Easy Setup, Immediate Use
Easy Setup, Immediate Use

Easy Setup, Immediate Use

No hardware required — the system goes live within one working day.

Our tracking and notification system works without any additional hardware in the vehicle — no GPS unit, no tablet. It takes all its data from the vitaDrive TMS app running on the driver's or attendant's smartphone. With no fitting or physical installation, the system can be ready to use within one working day, and it keeps running smoothly through any change of vehicle or driver.

How It Works

A safer journey for your child.

Technical Specifications

Explore the technical specifications of the vitaKids app.

IOS Android Huawei
Minimum operating system iOS 15.1 and later Android 7.0 and later
App size 34,5 MB 80,64 MB 40,66 MB
Current version 1.4.2 1.4.2 1.2.2
Last updated 2 September 2025 2 September 2025 1 April 2024
Location permission Yes Yes Yes
Camera permission Yes Yes Yes
Phone permission Yes Yes Yes
Download links Download on the App Store Get it on Google Play Explore it on Huawei AppGallery
Language support

Frequently Asked Questions

Browse the frequently asked questions about the vitaKids app.

Any parent registered in the system of a school or operator using vita TMS can sign in with their mobile number. If the school or operator does not yet offer the service, you can request it from the school or the company.

Yes. In the vitaKids parent app you can view the shuttle details of several siblings and switch between them easily to follow each journey separately.

Parents receive seven different alerts across three channels: SMS, voice call and in-app message. In the vitaKids app you can easily choose which alerts and which channels you want, and switch off the rest. You can also set when approach alerts are sent, so you only get the information you need.

In the vitaKids parent app you can easily report that your child will not use the shuttle on a given day or date range, or that they are staying at school. The information reaches staff and the driver instantly.

The vitaKids tracking system starts a waiting-time counter automatically the moment the vehicle reaches the student's address. If the student does not board within the allowed time, the system records it. An automatic message stating how long the vehicle waited is sent to the parent and recorded in reports. This is an important part of a transparent school shuttle service.

Yes. vitaKids lets you follow the vehicle in real time. It shows the current position and traffic conditions live, so you can reach accurate information about the route, congestion and estimated arrival time.

Yes. You can view the fee schedule and your payment history in vitaKids. Paying by card requires the operator to have online card payment enabled. Where it is, you can pay easily and securely with a credit or debit card on the in-app payment page.

In the app you can view the legal documents of the driver and attendant concerned — criminal record check, driving licence, psychotechnical report and professional competence certificate — and easily check that safe school shuttle standards are being met.

The vitaKids parent app lets you contact the driver, attendant or responsible staff directly, so you get help the moment you need it and the service continues without interruption.

If you run into any problem with the app, use the Help menu inside it to reach us for technical support and guidance.

User Reviews

Towards the future together: shared experiences

Review the vitaKids school shuttle tracking and parent notification system…

"Seeing on my phone the instant my child boards and gets off puts my mind at rest. I no longer have to keep calling the driver."

Ayşe Demir
Ayşe Demir

Parent

"Communication problems with parents have fallen away, because the system shares all the information regularly."


Ahmet Ersoy
Ahmet Ersoy

School principal

"We can see every vehicle's movements at once and follow driver and attendant performance. That has raised the quality of our service."

Selçuk Yılmaz
Selçuk Yılmaz

Transport company manager

"Recording students boarding and alighting is easy, and automatic alerts to parents make my job much simpler."

Elif Korkmaz
Elif Korkmaz

Shuttle attendant

"Following the shuttle on the map is very convenient. Waiting around has disappeared completely."


Mehmet Kaya
Mehmet Kaya

Parent

"Students boarding and alighting can be checked instantly, which has made the school even safer."


Nermin Arslan
Nermin Arslan

Deputy head teacher

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