Highlights: The law of access to information guarantees that data is made available to the population. This data is in raw format and has no real use. Traffic accident records can be more informative. This requires the development of web technologies based on data science design concepts. Objective: Develop an informative dashboard with a user-friendly interface and web technology to make useful and simplified data available to the population. Methodology: Data regarding accidents on Brazilian federal roads, registered by the Federal Highway Patrol and made available as open data, were collected. Based on the principles established by the Open Government Data Initiative and through the concepts of data science projects associated with the R programming language, a dashboard was developed for interactive consultation of the accident data on federal roads. Results: The dashboard developed can provide information with a friendly interface, relating the recorded accidents with environmental parameters and road conditions, such as weather conditions, characteristics of the road sections, region, temporality, and the driver's sex and age. The information is presented in the dashboard through graphs, tables, and interactive maps, with the possibility to search accidents by combining filters and allowing access to direct information from accident statistics. Practical Implications: The dashboard developed, by providing clear and simplified useful data, serves as a support for strategies to prevent accidents on highways. The Federal Highway Patrol Department can use these data to reduce the inconvenience caused by traffic accidents. Originality: This dashboard model, focused specifically on traffic accident information management, brings innovation to processing and analyzing data from federal highways. Therefore, it aims to contribute to the public management of accidents in a simple manner by providing simplified information to the population.
Keywords: Accessibility; Digital Inclusion; Data Analysis; Traffic Accidents.