The World Meeting of Families 2015 is officially underway, with Pope Francis currently in Washington DC, and making his way to Philadelphia on Saturday, September 26th through Sunday, September 27th. The WMOF will bring together hundreds of thousands of families, and over 150 nations represented. With the Congress taking place now, and closing events including the Festival of Families on September 26th, and the Papal Mass to be held on Sunday, September 27th, it is anticipated that 1.5 million people will attend the Sunday Mass alone.

Palomino is working with GO GROUND, the official transportation management partner of the WMOF, to develop a web portal for the transportation logistics for all private and commercial charter buses for the Papal visit this weekend. After months of development, the portal allows trip organizers, passengers and bus operators to register, book seats, locate event locations, parking spots, and routes, track GPS coordinates of bus drivers, issue parking credentials and permits, all using the WebPal Cloud Server platform.

We are not doing this all alone. The GO GROUND portal has been integrated with Stripe and Acceptiva for payment processing, Glympse to track the GPS coordinates of drivers, as well as Twiliofor SMS text messaging and real time updates.

To date, there have been over 100,000 passengers registered via the WebPal GO GROUND portal, planning over 2,500 bus movements from hundreds of Parishes.

Overall, the visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia is projected to be the single largest bus transportation event in the history of North America. The Palomino team is very proud to be the technology provider for this event and welcome Pope Francis to Philadelphia!

For more information on the World Meeting of Families - Philadelphia 2015, visit http://www.worldmeeting2015.org and see the Palomino GO GROUND press release here.