Dataset for: Beyond the Tailpipe: A Critical Review of Competing Visions of Net Zero Transport

Abstract

This dataset contains the search record, screening decisions, model prompts and data extraction matrix for the critical review titled "Beyond the Tailpipe: A Critical Review of Competing Visions of Net Zero Transport." The review is a critical review conducted as a critical interpretive synthesis. It examines how the literature on net zero transport bounds its object, across three substantive dimensions and one cross-cutting lens: 1. Ontological boundaries and framing 2. Material constraints and life-cycle realities 3. Institutional structures and corporate adaptation 4. Societal outcomes and mobility justice (cross-cutting) The dataset includes every Boolean string as executed in Web of Science and Scopus, with the database, execution date, date restriction and yield at each screening stage; the PRISMA-aligned funnel from 2,515 identified records to a synthesis corpus of 81; the Stage 2 screening decision and stated reason for each of the 170 records assessed; the two prompts issued to large language models at screening and at extraction, reproduced verbatim; and the seventeen-field extraction and synthesis matrix for the final corpus. Dimensional engagement is recorded as a coded variable rather than applied as an exclusion criterion. All 165 records in the mapped corpus carry a sub-domain coding: the 83 taken to full text are coded at field level from the extraction matrix, and the 82 engaging a single sub-domain are coded from the screening record and adjudicated by the lead author. The two codings rest on different evidence and are not interchangeable. The synthesis corpus of 81 is the set read in full.