cable car system

C1080
concept

A cable car system is a transportation network in which vehicles are pulled by continuously moving cables, typically used to move people or goods along steep or inaccessible routes such as mountainsides or urban hills.

All labels observed (51)

Label Occurrences
mountain railway 62
funicular railway 52
aerial tramway 51

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: cable car system
Generated description
A cable car system is a transportation network in which vehicles are pulled by continuously moving cables, typically used to move people or goods along steep or inaccessible routes such as mountainsides or urban hills.

Instances (283)

Instance Via concept surface
Girnar ropeway
Bernina Range
surface form: Bernina railway
mountain railway
Alpin Express cable car gondola lift
Metro Alpin funicular funicular railway
Merkurbergbahn funicular funicular railway
Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez railway mountain railway
London Cable Car urban cable car system
Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort and Disney's Riviera Resort
surface form: Disney Skyliner
gondola lift transportation system
Rax Alps
surface form: Raxseilbahn
aerial tramway
Predigtstuhlbahn cable car aerial tramway
Furka Oberalp railway
surface form: Furka Oberalp Railway
mountain railway
Lavra Funicular funicular railway
Peruvian Express chairlift
Gadzoom chairlift
Mineral Basin Express chairlift
Little Cloud ski lift
Gad 2 ski lift
Snowbird Aerial Tram aerial tramway
Stans, Switzerland
surface form: Stanserhornbahn
mountain railway
Mount Mashuk cable car
Pilatus mountain
surface form: Pilatus Railway
mountain railway
Polybahn funicular
surface form: Polybahn
funicular railway
Dolderbahn rack railway
surface form: Dolderbahn
mountain railway
Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway mountain railway
Martigny–Châtelard Railway mountain railway
Lausanne–Ouchy railway funicular railway
Powell–Hyde line cable car line
Hyde Street terminal cable car terminal
grip car 8
surface form: Grip car 8
San Francisco cable car
Roosevelt Island station aerial tramway station
Gangtok Ropeway aerial tramway
Disney Skyliner aerial gondola lift system
OHSU upper terminal aerial tram station
Maçka–Taşkışla Aerial Tramway aerial tramway
Panoramique des Dômes rack railway to Puy de Dôme
surface form: Panoramique des Dômes
mountain railway
Mount Beacon Incline Railway (historic) funicular railway
Tünel funicular funicular railway
Roosevelt Island Tramway aerial tramway
cable car to Bocksberg aerial cableway
Cairngorm Mountain Railway funicular railway
Mount Vodno
surface form: Millennium Cross cable car
aerial cable car
Millennium Cross Cable Car aerial cable car system
Ikoma Cable Line funicular railway
Carmelit underground funicular
surface form: Carmelit
underground funicular railway
Srisailam Ropeway to Patala Ganga cable car transport system
Sunnegga funicular funicular railway
Bernina railway line mountain railway
NMR mountain railway
Ljubljana Castle funicular funicular railway
Songdo Marine Cable Car aerial tramway