Ritu Narayan, CEO and founder of Zūm, has been recognized as a 2024 CNBC Changemaker: Women Transforming Business. Narayan founded Zum to make the best public transportation system in the country for families, drivers, and schools. Zum provides unprecedented visibility and data-backed accountability by uniting parents, children, school administrators, and drivers on a customizable end-to-end technological platform.
Zum provides school transportation to thousands of schools nationwide, including Los Angeles Unified School District, San Francisco Unified School District, Seattle Public Schools, Howard County Public Schools, Oakland Unified School District, and Metro Nashville Public Schools. Zum reinvented student transportation and grid charging. It delivers a smooth, real-time interface for parents, drivers, schools, districts, administrators, and operators with its powerful operations and integrated cloud-based platform for modern student transportation. Zum, the only carbon-neutral student transportation operator, wants to become Net Zero using EV buses.
To understand why Zum using electric vehicles is significant, read one of our articles on electric vehicles that summarizes their history and benefits.