The category vertical transportation devices includes all those transportation devices which primary use is to transport in a vertical direction (although as a side effect they may also transport in a horizontal direction).

these include:

• Cable cars and Cog railways
• Chair lifts, * Detachable chairlifts, Funitels, Gondola lifts and Ski tows
• Elevators (classical lifts)
• Escalators and Inclined travelators
• skyhooks and Space elevators (although these do not exist yet, they are a form of elevator)

Transportation