Zūm has deployed a new fleet of connected school buses and other vehicles, which will be converted to electric by 2025.”Īlong with its fleet, Zūm offers school districts a cloud-based dashboard that allows them to manage operations, track movements, plan budget use and analyze performance and service data - the kind of tech that makes sense for schools to have but still seems radical given how slowly the public sector moves. The buses previously used were old and owned by the incumbent and have been moved out of the city. “Zūm has absorbed all the drivers who were previously serving SFUSD. “These savings are driven by our tech-driven route optimization and operations,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch. Zūm’s transportation solution for SFUSD is expected to save the district $3 million per year on average, based on the cost of the incumbent’s solution.
The company intends to use the funds to lease vehicles, hire drivers - salaried employees - improve customer and operational support, and research and develop product enhancements to support the contract, a spokesperson for Zūm told TechCrunch.
Zūm will also facilitate over 2,000 field trips per year for the school district.Īside from Zūm’s five-year $53 million contract with Oakland Unified School District, which began in 2020, the SFUSD contract is the largest the startup has ever won. The startup’s fleet of 206 buses, vans and cars is distributed based on specific use cases, placing students who live on busier routes on school buses and sending out cars and vans for others to increase efficiency. Zūm, which already operates its rideshare-meets-bus service in Oakland, much of Southern California, Seattle, Chicago and Dallas, will be responsible for handling day-to-day operations, transporting 3,500 students across 150 school campuses starting this fall semester. The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has awarded Zūm, a startup that wants to upgrade student transportation, a five-year $150 million contract to modernize its transport service throughout the district.
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