(24 Nov 2020, 12:25 pm)Jamie M wrote 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.
That's the key to this. Whilst a fleetwide roll out can make a huge difference, seeing it introduced now is pleasing to see.
To think how many changes and revisions there have been based on data (which to be totally frank, is flawed on so many levels), is scary.
People's lives and commutes have been impacted on the assumed data impacting on the vast revisions to services seen in the last 14/15 years.