Zum extends CMX across LAUSD's in-house school bus fleet

The 2026-27 deployment puts district- and contractor-operated buses on CMX under a five-year transportation-management contract worth up to $20.8 million.

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Primary source: PR Newswire

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LAUSD gives Zum a large-scale test of its software strategy: selling one coordination platform across district-owned and contractor-operated buses without requiring Zum to operate the entire fleet.

Yellow school buses and a modern transport vehicle are parked in a sunny Los Angeles bus depot, with a digital display showing routing information.

Ritu Narayan is turning Zum, the student transportation company she founded with her brothers, into the software layer connecting vehicles that Zum does and does not run. On September 22nd, Zum said Los Angeles Unified School District had begun deploying its CMX platform across the district's in-house bus fleet for the 2026-27 school year.…

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