(24 Nov 2020, 12:10 pm)streetdeckfan wrote It basically never makes sense to buy a single ticket unless you're just using the one bus.
From my experience, single tickets are frequently sold. Now, I don't understand passenger models, but since it's my job to sell them, I'd be inclined to say you're wrong about that.
With the pandemic, there has been a huge pick-up in scanning passes too, which leads me to believe passengers generally either have prepaid cards, codes, or ENCTS or want a single. I'd say the day of the return is dying a death. This would make the TOTO scheme a great tool to pin point where people board/exit in an identifiable way. Currently Ticketer just tells you numbers of people getting on/off, which doesn't give the best picture of journey's being made. You have to assume some passenger's activity, where as a scanning tool, will allow a direct log of journeys - real data vs assumed data.