AI for School Bus Fleets 2026: Zonar & Tyler Routing
Discover how AI school bus routing software from Zonar and Tyler is reshaping pupil transportation in 2026, and what the shift means for your fleet.
Chapter 1: The 2026 School Bus Crisis: Why AI Landed on Your Loading Dock If you run a pupil transportation operation in 2026, you did not go looking for artificial intelligence. It came looking for you. It arrived because the old way of running yellow buses — a routing coordinator with tribal knowledge, a wall map, and a stack of stop requests — stopped working. Not gradually. It broke in a specific window between 2021 and 2025, and by the time districts came up for air, the vendors had already rebuilt their products around optimization engines and were calling it...