@diegor @Stoori also, vertical elevators that are part of the public transport system of a town do often require a ticket
(TIL that the ones in Genova no longer do so, but only for city residents, everybody else needs to pay for one)
A lot of the elevators I can think of are either private (and the costs are directly shared by the people who live in the building) or inside a shopping-related building (so the costs are probably paid by the shop owners with the obvious benefits)