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Italy: A greener way to travel to Umbria's capital | Travel | guardian.co.uk
Many locals though have given it a cold welcome, complaining about the continuous hum of the cable pulleys.
So it's a cable railway. It seemed non-standard even for peoplemovers, but I indeed find a different technological origin in the same article:
Built by Leitner Technologies, an Italian engineering firm better known for its ski gondolas and high-speed lifts, the mini metro is being hailed as an engineering first.
I hear a faint echo of the Monorail Song. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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