After some experimentation, I’ve found that this approach works really well specifically for the title of this topic - transferring project standards. As for copying views, schedules & sheets, well that doesn’t seem to work out nearly as good. And there’s the other obvious caveats; you actually have to link a project, know the element IDs and the project cannot be in template format. So with that, here’s the Rhythm approach:
Rhythm’s nodes also allow you to successfully search the parameters of an unopened document which means that filtering specific elements is not an issue. This also works for drafting views:
Insert detail views from master details
Copying schedules from other project