In a circulating cableway including a number of cableway stations and a number of cableway vehicles movable between the cableway stations along a conveyor cable, a first cableway station includes a boarding region for passengers to board the cableway vehicles, a control unit for controlling the circulating cableway, and a detection device to detect passengers present in the boarding region and determine a passenger type for each of the detected passengers, wherein the control unit is designed to operate the circulating cableway in a specified safe operating mode when at least one determined passenger type is a specified safety passenger type, the circulating cableway also includes a lift platform with a height adjustment device in the boarding region, and the control unit is designed to control the height adjustment device in the specified safe operating mode to raise the lift platform to a specified or specifiable height.