RouteyAI
Smarter school bus routes, and live bus tracking for parents.
Website: routeyai.vercel.app
What is RouteyAI?
RouteyAI helps schools run their buses and lets parents follow the bus on their phone.
- Schools add their buses and students. RouteyAI works out the best route for each bus.
- Drivers follow that route on their phone, stop by stop.
- Parents watch the bus on a map in real time and know when it will reach their stop.
Every bus does two runs every school day. In the morning it picks students up at home and ends at the school. In the afternoon it leaves the school and drops them off at the same stops in reverse. Once a route is made it stays the same, so drivers can learn it.
No more waiting at the bus stop guessing, and no more planning routes by hand.
How it helps each person
Parents
- See your child's bus moving on a map, live
- Know how many minutes until it reaches your stop
- Get a notification when your child gets on the bus, is dropped off at home, or is marked absent
- Let the school know your child won't ride, for the morning, the afternoon or both
- Read updates from the driver and the school
Drivers
- Start the morning or the afternoon run, and see the next stop in the right order for it
- Tap to mark each student as on board or absent, and in the afternoon as dropped off
- The phone shares the bus location while the route is running, so parents can follow along
- Send quick updates to parents, such as "running 10 minutes late"
Schools
- Add buses, drivers and students in one place
- Let RouteyAI plan the routes, instead of drawing them by hand, and keep them steady: a new student slots in without moving anyone else
- See every bus and every run on one live map, and who has not yet been dropped off
- Send announcements to drivers and parents
- Check reports on how full each bus is and how many students ride
How route planning works
- The school adds each student's home address.
- RouteyAI groups nearby homes into stops and shares them out between the buses, without putting more students on a bus than it has seats.
- It puts the stops in the shortest order, using real driving times on real roads, not straight lines on a map.
- The same stops make both runs. The morning follows the order and ends at the school; the afternoon drives it in reverse.
- When a new student joins, RouteyAI adds them to the nearest bus that still has room and slots their stop into the route without moving anyone else's. Re-planning a whole route is only ever offered to the school admin as a proposal, and only when it would be clearly shorter.
Privacy and safety
- Parents only see their own child's bus. They can't see other students or other buses.
- Each school's information is kept separate. One school can never see another school's data.
- The bus location is only shared while a route is running, not all day.
- Anyone can delete their account from inside the app.
Read more in the privacy policy.
Where the project is today
| Part | Status |
|---|
| Website | Live |
| School dashboard (on the web) | Live: routes, students, fleet, absences and analytics |
| Phone app for parents and drivers | Working; being prepared for the App Store and Google Play |
For developers
Everything below is for people who want to run or work on the code.
What it's built with
| Part | Technology |
|---|
| Website and dashboards | Next.js 14 (App Router), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui |
| Database, sign-in and live updates | Supabase (PostgreSQL, Auth, Realtime, Edge Functions) |
| Maps | Mapbox (GL JS, Geocoding and Directions APIs) |
| Phone app | Expo SDK 57 (React Native 0.86), expo-router, @rnmapbox/maps |
| State and forms | Zustand, React Hook Form + Zod |
| Hosting | Vercel (website), EAS (phone app) |
| Package manager | pnpm |
Account types
| Role | What they can do |
|---|
| Platform Admin | The RouteyAI team. Adds schools and invites each school's admin |
| School Admin | Manages buses, students, routes and reports for one school |
| Driver | Runs their assigned route, shares GPS, marks attendance |
| Parent | Follows their own child's bus. No access to anyone else's data |
Access rules are enforced inside the database (Postgres row-level security), not just in the app.
Run it on your computer
You need Node.js 18.17 or newer, pnpm, a Supabase project and a Mapbox account.
# 1. Get the code
git clone https://github.com/najeeb101/RouteyAI.git
cd RouteyAI
# 2. Install packages
pnpm install
# 3. Add your keys
cp .env.example .env.local
# then open .env.local and fill in your Supabase and Mapbox keys
# 4. Start the website
pnpm dev
# open http://localhost:3000
The keys .env.local needs:
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=your_supabase_url
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=your_anon_key
SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY=your_service_role_key # server only, never send this to the browser
NEXT_PUBLIC_MAPBOX_TOKEN=your_mapbox_token
Phone app: see mobile/README.md. In short:
cd mobile
npm install
cp .env.example .env.local # Supabase keys and a public Mapbox pk. token
npx expo run:android # builds the app; Expo Go can't run the Mapbox map
Useful commands
pnpm dev # start the website locally
pnpm build # production build
pnpm lint # check code style
pnpm typecheck # check TypeScript types
pnpm test:logic # route planning, notification wording and run rules
pnpm db:reset # rebuild the local database from migrations + seed data
pnpm db:push # apply new migrations to the live Supabase project
This is the beginning of the README. Read the rest at the original. Read the full README ↗
