Transit Center Inc. has named David Bragdon its new executive director.

Bragdon is a specialist in urban and regional planning, urban transportation, and sustainability issues. He served two four-year terms as the president of the Metro Council, the elected metropolitan planning organization for the Portland, OR, region, from 2003-2010. More recently, he directed New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, managing the update of the city’s sustainable growth and ­infrastructure strategy, PlaNYC.

Transit Center Inc., founded at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the mid-1980s as an incubator and provider of pre-tax commuter benefits, sold the TransitChek program to Wage Works in January 2012. Its board of directors is committed to using the resources from that transaction and its national contacts within the public transit industry to expand the organization’s mission to support the growth of sustainable mobility and transit ridership.