Mississauga city council has formed a committee to help jump start a pilot project that will help get Uber back on the road.

On Wednesday, Mississauga city council voted in favour of forming a committee that will be tasked with developing a pilot project that hopes to find a way to integrate and regulate ride-sharing services into the ground transportation industry.

The motion comes after Mississauga city councillors supported a motion to ban UberX in the city. All operations under UberX in the city were ordered to cease immediately.

The pilot project is expected to be instated for one year and will begin sometime in September.

Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie said the "status-quo" in ground transportation isn't working and that developments are necessary.

"We want the taxi industry and TNC representatives at the table and to be full partners in this committee that is tasked with developing a made in Mississauga pilot program to regulate TNCs," Cromie said in a news release issued Wednesday afternoon.

Crombie said the pilot program will be a chance for Mississauga to "test drive" how the ground transportation industry would operate with both traditional taxi's and ride-sharing services on the roads.

"Council has an important opportunity to level the playing field by modernizing rules and regulations to ensure Mississauga is a city in step with the times, and with what the public wants."

"Today, council made the responsible decision by voting to proceed with a real plan that will allow us to better address the growing demand for TNCs," the statement reads. "The debate on how regulate TNCs is not going away and we need to get it right."

On Tuesday, Uber Canada's General Manager Ian Black addressed the prospect of a pilot project in a letter to the city staff responsible for ground transportation regulations, Mickey Frost.

Black said that Uber Canada is open to working with the city to come to a solution and urged that the program begin "as early as possible."

"Mississauga City Council meets on June 8 and could conceivably approve the terms of a TNC pilot program at that point," the letter read.

"Suspending operations would seriously impact intercity mobility of Mississaugans that rely on ridesharing every day to get around the GTA, including those Mississaugans who use uberPOOL as a more affordable carpooling option that helps reduce traffic congestion across the GTA."

According to Black, 24 per cent of Uber trips in Mississauga are trips that use uberPOOL, a carpooling extension on the Uber platform.

It was not immediately clear if Uber will cease its operations while the pilot program is in the process of being administered.

Poll finds nearly half of Mississauga voters disapprove of ban on Uber

Meanwhile, almost half of Mississauga voters disapprove of the city’s decision to ban Uber from operating within its boundaries.

A new poll by Forum Research shows 49 per cent of the 722 Mississauga residents surveyed do not agree with council’s decision to put a stop to the ride-sharing service.

Forty-two per cent of respondents told Forum that they agree with council’s decision while one-tenth said they did not have an opinion on the subject.

The survey also suggests that among those who have used Uber, satisfaction with the ride-sharing service is significantly higher than with traditional cabs.

According to the poll, 28 per cent of respondents said they had used Uber in the past and 95 per cent of them said they were satisfied with the service. Only 49 per cent said they were satisfied with their taxi service.

“It is clear that those who use Uber see it as vastly superior to the city’s taxis,” Forum Research President Lorne Bozinoff said in his analysis accompanying the poll.

The poll, which was conducted on May 19, randomly surveyed 722 people via telephone and is considered to be accurate plus or minus four per cent, 19 times out of 20.