In the article, a method for designing databases for the road industry that meets the requirements of the digital economy was developed. The set-theory analysis of complex systems implemented by relational databases (RDBs) was used. This approach meets current trends in the global digital economy, where relational databases provide efficient operation of the banking sector, industrial production management, fast data processing (bank cards, Internet search), etc. The Department of Roads at Irkutsk National Research Technical University designed and is developing the road database for the Irkutsk region. The paper considers the concept of this project and prospects of its further development with a view to the possible use of this database by remote users. The specifics of digital economy in the Russian Federation call for establishing branches and territorial databases, including the road database for the Russian regions. The efficient solutions for such a database were proposed, including, in particular, integrating remote users with the back-end database based on the attribute characteristics to limit the available content and allowable changes to the back-end data.