Generative AI Policy Starter Kit
This kit rests on a single idea, grounded in the ITE Canons of Ethics: AI is a tool, and the human stays accountable.
AI is already part of transportation practice. The question is no longer whether to use these tools, but how to use them well.
A tool can accelerate the work, but it cannot hold a license, exercise professional judgment, carry liability, or answer to a client, a decision-maker, or a member of the public. Every recommendation that follows is an application of that one principle to a specific part of practice.
Six places to protect accountability
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Governance
Deciding deliberately who approves which AI uses, so your organization adopts these tools on purpose rather than by drift.
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Secure Use
Keeping confidential and sensitive information protected, so efficiency never comes at the cost of client trust or data security.
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Preserving Apprenticeship
Ensuring the next generation builds the judgment to direct these tools, rather than becoming dependent on them.
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QA/QC Procedures
Adapting review so that AI's distinctive errors get caught before they reach a deliverable.
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Copyrighted Materials & IP
Using AI in ways that respect others' ownership and protect your own.
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Use Disclosure
Disclosing its use when appropriate, starting the conversation around AI use early, and calibrating the detail of those discussions.
Open sectionTaken together they are a foundation for using AI with confidence — a way to bring these tools fully into transportation practice while keeping the profession's accountability to the public intact.
Who built this kit
Developed by a multidisciplinary team of volunteers from the public and private sectors, led by Fehr & Peers. It draws from facilitated discussions with four ITE chapters (San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, San Diego, and Dallas), input from members at the 2026 Joint ITE International and Great Lakes District Annual Meeting, and an online AI readiness survey published by the ITE AI Great Ideas Group. See the full list of authors and contributors.
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