Scholar transport oversight · South Africa
Safer Learners.
Stronger Communities.
EduTransit provides government with real-time visibility, verification and compliance for scholar transport programmes. Turning every trip into trusted data.
- Thandi M.Picked up07:14
- Sipho D.Picked up07:21
- Aya K.Picked up07:28
- Lebo T.On route07:32
Last sync: 07:32 · All data securely recorded
- Learners transported12 485
- Active routes486
- Active vehicles512
- On-time performance98.4%
- Compliance rate94.7%
- Incidents3
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Know what is happening. Know who is responsible. Know that it happened.
Know what is happening.
Know who is responsible.
Know that it happened.
The Problem
Scholar Transport Shouldn’t Operate in the Dark.
Thousands of learners depend on scholar transport every day. Yet the organisations responsible for managing these programmes often have limited visibility into what happens between the vehicle leaving its starting point and the learner arriving safely at school.
- Fragmented records.
- Paper-based processes.
- Expired compliance documents.
- Unverified trips.
- Limited incident visibility.
- Delayed reporting.
EduTransit brings these critical processes into one digital platform.
The Solution
One Platform.
One Source of Truth.
EduTransit connects the essential components of scholar transport oversight into a single digital environment.
Verify
Record and verify learner pickups and drop-offs, creating a digital record of service delivery.
Monitor
Give authorised government administrators visibility across operators, routes, drivers, vehicles and learners.
Manage Compliance
Digitise compliance documentation and monitor expiry dates, outstanding documents and review status.
Manage Incidents
Capture incidents and exceptions, assign corrective actions and maintain a complete record of outcomes.
Report
Transform operational activity into structured reports for management, programme oversight and accountability.
Audit
Maintain an immutable history of important system activities and operational events.
Government Oversight
From Transport Activity to Government Intelligence.
EduTransit gives authorised government officials the information they need to oversee scholar transport programmes without having to manage the transport operation itself.
Government administrators can see
- Active operators
- Registered drivers
- Vehicles
- Routes
- Learners
- Pickup and drop-off activity
- Compliance status
- Incidents and exceptions
- Service delivery performance
- Audit records
- Programme reports
Visibility without operational interference.
EduTransit is designed to support operators, not replace them.
Service Verification
Did the Trip Actually Happen?
EduTransit creates a digital verification trail around every learner transport journey.
A verified event can be associated with
- Learner
- Driver
- Vehicle
- Route
- Time
- Device
- Location
Where GPS is available
Location information can strengthen verification, tying the event to the place it was recorded as well as the time.
Where connectivity is unavailable
The event is still recorded on the device and securely synchronised as soon as connectivity returns.
Connectivity should never become a safety or accountability failure.
The portal
One province, every operator.
Operators, incidents and expiring documents, scoped to your jurisdiction and nothing beyond it, with an open SOS announced at the top of every page and figures that refresh themselves.
Government Oversight
Provincial overview
Latest incidents
All incidents →- Vehicle breakdown on the AM legHighveld Scholar ServicesHIGH
- Learner not at pickup pointRand Learner TransitMED
- Late departure — 22 minutesVaal Scholar MoversLOW
Rendered from the same components as the live portal. Figures and operator names are illustrative — no learner data appears here.
On the phone
Every User. One App.
A parent sees their own children; a driver sees today’s route and manifest. Nobody installs anything different — the app adapts to who signed in.
Good morning
Nomsa
Route 12 · AM
Arriving at school 07:38
Your children
Today
- Live vehicle positionFollow the vehicle carrying your child, and only that vehicle.
- Every event, timestampedCollected and dropped off, written once and never editable.
- Panic buttonReaches the operator, the authority and your emergency contacts.
- Report an absenceTell the driver before they wait at the gate.
- Works without signalDrivers capture pickups offline; it syncs when a connection returns.
What it does
Built to hold up later.
Records that cannot be quietly changed
Pickups, drop-offs and absences are append-only — no edits, no deletions, no backdating. Enforced by database triggers, not by an application rule someone can route around.
An SOS that goes to more than one place
The panic button raises a high-severity incident and fans out at once to the operator, the authority and the learner's emergency contacts.
Compliance that actually expires
When a licence, PrDP or roadworthy certificate lapses, the driver, vehicle or operator is restricted automatically.
Works where the signal does not
Drivers capture pickups offline and the app syncs later. GPS is preferred and never required, so a rural route is flagged — not blocked.
Tracking scoped by who may see it
The same trip, seen at three different depths. Every read of a learner's record is written to an audit log.
Reports an authority can put in a file
Service delivery, exceptions and the full audit trail, scoped to your jurisdiction and exportable to PDF on a letterhead — the format an oversight process actually needs, rather than a screen you have to describe to someone else.
Who it’s for
Each person sees their part.
One mobile app and one web portal, where what you see is decided by your role and your organisation rather than by installing something different.
Provincial transport authority
Monitor every operator in your jurisdiction from one dashboard, and nothing outside it.
Transport operator
Run your fleet, drivers, routes and learner manifests, and keep your compliance current.
Driver
Today's route and manifest on a phone, working offline, with a panic button that reaches someone.
Parent or guardian
Know when your child was collected and dropped off, follow the vehicle live, and report an absence before the driver waits.
The process
How it works.
The authority onboards its operators
Operators are approved, not self-serve. Nobody uses the system until an administrator has approved them and their documents are on file.
Drivers run their routes
Each pickup and drop-off is recorded against a learner, a trip and a time, with location where there is signal to capture it.
Everyone reads the same record
Parent, operator and authority see one account of what happened — differing only in how much of it each is permitted to see.
Trust & privacy
Built like a safety system.
POPIA-aligned by design
Learners are minors. Their records are handled on that basis, with parental consent required and personal data kept to what the service actually needs.
Every look is logged
Reading a learner's record is itself an event. The audit log is append-only and immutable — including for administrators.
Jurisdiction stays separate
A provincial official sees the operators in their province. The boundary is enforced in the database, not in the interface.
Tracking with a purpose and a limit
Location exists to answer whether a child was collected safely. It is scoped to the people entitled to that answer, and no further.
Book a demonstration
See it with your own routes.
The quickest way to judge EduTransit is to watch one real morning route run through it — the manifest, the pickups, the exceptions and the report that comes out the other end.
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