The VIA Metropolitan Transit Board of Trustees, San ­Antonio, TX, has selected Jeffrey Arndt as the agency’s new president and chief executive officer. He has served in this capacity on an interim basis since Keith Parker left in November 2012 to head the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid ­Transit Authority.

Arndt joined VIA in 2012 as deputy chief executive ­officer and head of business support services. Earlier he worked 25 years with Houston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, eventually rising to the rank of senior vice president of operations/chief operating officer. He also spent five years as a research scientist/research specialist at the Texas Transportation Institute and worked for Parsons ­Brinckerhoff and First Transit.

For APTA, he is a member of the Bus and Paratransit CEOs Committee, Bus Safety Committee, Legislative Committee, and Mid-Size Operations Committee.