LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The app for tracking buses with the Jefferson County Public Schools district is now live and shows the location of each JCPS bus is in real time.

The app is called JCPS Edulog Parent Portal Lite and can be downloaded to your mobile phone. To download, click here. 

Parents can create a free account and then search for Jefferson County Public Schools. In an email to parents, JCPS said it is currently using the lite version of the app, but the district may upgrade to a more robust version in the future.

After downloading the app, parents can click on the district and find their student's bus by typing in the bus number.

The app tracks the school bus and shows its location in real time.

"You can set up a perimeter to say when it's two miles from this point, I want to know where that bus is," said Carolyn Callahan, a JCPS spokeswoman. "So that was very helpful."

The school bus sends regular GPS pings to the app database cloud every 15 to 20 seconds, according to an email sent to parents. 

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