Where roads
end lifts
begin.
Self-propelled cabin systems for terrain where conventional infrastructure is not feasible.
Explore the technology
Turn inaccessible terrain
into operational space.
The Outdoor Lift is CDC's vertical transport system: a self-propelled cabin that installs on hillsides without excavation, cable, or machine room. Designed for hotels, resorts, tourist attractions, and urban transit across slopes where funiculars and conventional elevators cannot go.
The terrain that blocked development becomes operational area. Hillside accommodation, tourist attractions, and transit routes that serve communities, without funicular-grade excavation costs.
Installed worldwide
Built around three principles
Ecology
No excavation, no concrete foundations, no environmental permits to fight. The landscape stays intact. Your project installs in weeks without removing a single tree or disturbing the site.
Functionality
Curves around terrain features, handles changing inclines, scales from a private residence to a public transit route. Each system is engineered for your specific site, not adapted to it.
Safety
Redundant braking, continuous remote diagnostics, backup power, and integrated emergency communication. Every installation is certified to the national passenger-transport standards of the destination country.
The lift that goes
around the mountain.
Driven by a ball-chain mechanism, the Outdoor Lift navigates around trees, rocky outcrops, and hillside features without excavation. The self-propelled cabin carries all drive components onboard: no engine room, no machine house, no fixed straight line.
- Simultaneous change of direction and incline on a single track
- Multiple intermediate stops along the route
- Runs at walking pace on two horizontally arranged guide tubes
- Power delivered through electrified sliding contacts beneath the rails — no batteries, no external drive cable
- The cabin remains level through all direction and incline changes
- Wheelchair-accessible entrance across every capacity tier
- Real-time remote diagnostics and monitoring
- No haul cable — the cabin carries its own drive, enabling long winding routes
Built for five applications
A single system, scaled to the project. From private hillside homes to high-volume public transit — configurable to five standard capacities, engineered for the specific site.
Safety is not
a feature. It is
the foundation.
Every Outdoor Lift is engineered with independent fail-safe mechanisms: redundant braking that engages automatically, continuous real-time monitoring, and on-board diagnostics. Backup power keeps the cabin available during a mains outage; integrated emergency communication is standard. Each installation is certified to the passenger-transport standards of the destination country.
Let's design
the future together.
Our engineers will define the right configuration for your site and provide a preliminary cost model, at no obligation.
Talk to the CDC team