Free & open-source · early alpha

The transportation department, handled.

BusHero is transportation management software built for school district offices. Field trips, student records, drivers, vehicles, and change history — all in one place, on servers you control.

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Field trips, students, drivers, and vehicles on the same screen.

Most transportation offices juggle email, spreadsheets, paper forms, and phone calls. BusHero pulls that everyday work into one place.

The boring stuff matters.

Trip requests need approvals. Student notes need to be findable fast. Drivers and buses need to be assigned without guessing. That's what BusHero starts with.

Field trip requests, approvals, and driver assignment
Student records with contacts, needs, and important alerts
Driver schedules, availability, and assignment conflicts
Fleet records, maintenance status, and readiness notes

Development status

Like most things in education, it's a work in progress.

This isn't finished software. Some parts work well, some are still rough — and I'd like to hear from anyone who runs school transportation.

In progress

Student records and imports
Field trip request flow
Driver and fleet records
Change history and user permissions

Run it yourself

Self-hosted app and database
PostgreSQL database
Runs on district servers
GPL license

Not ready for daily use

Things may change
Needs more testing
Docs are incomplete
Best for trying out, not relying on yet

Self-hosted & open source

Your server, your database.

BusHero runs on servers a district controls. Student records, trip requests, driver assignments, vehicle notes, and audit history don't have to live in someone else's system.

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About

Built by a transportation director, for transportation directors.

I'm keeping the project small while it's still early. The goal is to build what transportation offices use every day, then make it solid.

Get in touch

Want to try it or ask a question?

Send me an email.

[email protected]