Cable car--A good way of overviewing

A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate, or a vehicle on these systems.
Varieties in which the vehicle is suspended from a cable:
Aerial tramways, consisting of a cabin suspended from a cable, pulled by another cable.
Gondola lifts, consisting of a loop of cable that is strung between two stations, usually over intermediate supporting towers, from which cars are suspended.
Ropeway conveyors, essentially a subtype of gondola lift, from which containers for goods rather than passenger cars are suspended.
Varieties in which the vehicle rests on rails or a road:
A cable car (railway),a street railway system using a cable under the road to pull the cars along.
Funiculars, consisting of a pair of railway cars that alternately ascend and descend an inclined right-of-way, attached to a common cable