The program's enhanced training curriculum is meant to improve driver safety and performance, provide specialized training for transportation professionals, and implement new vehicle safety technology.
Six buses were deployed across the San Francisco Bay area. The company also announced it secured two grants for more than 35 EV buses for the Oakland Unified School District.
In December, she joined student transportation provider Zum as its first executive vice president of school transportation. Now, she looks toward expanding the company's reach across the United States.
The company, which offers alternative student transportation, will introduce digitized daily safety checks, student information system integrations, and digital tags.
With the Series D Softbank Vision funds, Zum plans to accelerate its vision of modernizing school transportation, which includes a path to 100% electric vehicles by 2025 and market expansion to 12 states.
The company has identified six key pillars that it believes are crucial to achieving success and changing the school bus industry.
The Zum Net Zero initiative outlines the student transportation company's plan to transition its entire fleet to electric vehicles by 2025.
The new partnership will serve 3,500 students across San Francisco Unified School District.
Student transportation company Zum is partnering with AutoGrid, a provider of AI-powered energy software solutions, to use its fleet of 10,000 electric school buses to deliver power back to the electrical grid.
In addition to Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, the children's ridesharing company will now provide transportation to schools in Sacramento, Calif.; San Diego; Miami; Phoenix; Dallas; Chicago; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.
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