LENEXA, KANSAS (Dec. 11, 2025) – Transportant, a leader in school bus safety technology, today announced that three Arkansas school districts — Atkins, Elkins, and Vilonia — have integrated its technology across 60 school buses: 14 in both Atkins and Elkins and 32 buses in Vilonia.

The new installations reinforce a growing interest among Arkansas school districts in embracing advanced bus safety solutions that protect students, empower drivers, and strengthen district-level operations. Sixteen districts in the state now use Transportant safety technology.

Arkansas’s largest district, Bentonville Schools, was the first to adopt Transportant technology in the state; it uses the technology on every bus in its fleet, serving as Arkansas’ model for connected transportation.

“When I first started, I quickly realized we needed a better system than just paper directions for our drivers and old video tapes that can only be viewed after an incident has occurred. That’s when I found Transportant, which had everything in one stop, from real-time digital cameras to GPS, Wi-Fi, and parent apps, making the decision to integrate its technology into our buses a no-brainer for us,” said Jason Salmons, transportation director, Bentonville Schools. Salmons reports a 60% reduction in parent calls, 30% increase in high school ridership, 6 hours saved per day not reviewing video tapes, and a 100% success rate with correct drop offs of children at their stops.

“Our strategy is simple: place advanced, proactive safety tools on every school bus so that no incident is unknowable, no student unseen, and no driver unsupported,” said Martin Staples, CEO of Transportant. “These three new Arkansas school districts join Bentonville and others around the U.S. who believe school transportation should not wait for a crisis — it should anticipate, prevent, and respond to threats to student safety in real time.”

Transportant’s technology provides districts with a unified, high-tech safety system including:

• live-streaming video and audio access (with direct communication capability between bus and school),

• second-by-second GPS tracking,

• digital ridership check-in/check-out system with rider rosters for drives,

• a parent mobile app for knowing where their kids are at all times during transport,

• route monitoring and diagnostics, and more.

For districts like Atkins, Elkins, and Vilonia, adopting the technology means incident prevention and response happens in real time, driver support is enhanced through easy communication with the transportation office and turn-by-turn directions, and communication with parents and staff becomes more open and informative.

In Bentonville, Transportant has already reported measurable operational gains such as routing efficiencies and faster incident intervention and resolution.

With today's additions, Transportant’s reach in Arkansas continues to deepen — and its mission, to equip all school buses with real-time visibility and safeguard every student on board, grows stronger.

Built for K-12 districts, Transportant enhances safety, streamlines operations, and builds trust with parents. With an all-in-one system, districts can enhance safety, improve response times, and streamline transportation with real-time GPS, live-streaming cameras, automated ridership tracking, and route optimization.