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Atlas Fuel Routing & Logistics Model

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The routing engine behind Atlas, delivered as an API. Send an origin, a destination, and a product, and receive ranked multimodal routes priced leg by leg in cents per gallon.

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Pipeline, rail, barge, and truck Published tariffs plus flagged estimates CSV, XLSX, and JSON output

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The Atlas routing engine — ranked multimodal routes priced leg by leg in cents per gallon

Overview

Every supply decision eventually reduces to the same question: what does it cost to move a gallon from here to there? Atlas answers that question on a map. The Atlas Fuel Routing & Logistics Model answers it programmatically, so your own applications can ask it thousands of times a day.

Send an origin, a rack destination, and a product, and the model plans multimodal routes across pipeline, truck, barge, and rail. Each leg is priced in cents per gallon from published pipeline tariffs, line loss charges, terminal fees, rail rates, and Mills marine and trucking cost models. Where a published tariff exists, the model uses it. Where one does not, the model returns a clearly flagged estimate.

Results come back as structured data in CSV, XLSX, or JSON, ready for the pricing engines, netback models, and supply optimization tools on your side of the wall.

Key information

Use cases

Model the competitor's cost

Wholesalers need to see what their competitors' cost structures plausibly look like by modeling scenarios across index (Platts vs. Argus vs. Mills), supply origin (Group 3 vs. Gulf Coast), and route, in order to know before they post tomorrow whether they will be uncompetitive. However, competitor costs are invisible; today the team eyeballs an unbranded rack posting and treats "within about 10 cents" as a passing grade.

The Atlas Fuel Routing & Logistics Model orients the wholesaler by running the canonical formula across alternative index, origin, and route combinations and returning a distribution of plausible competitor costs, which results in a directional read on tomorrow's competitiveness before the price goes out.

Cost a gallon from refinery to rack

Retail end users need the all-in cost of moving a barrel from refinery to rack by summing published tariff, line loss, terminaling, and freight across pipeline, rail, barge, and truck, in order to sanity check supplier offers on a netback basis. However, that data sits in PDFs on a dozen carrier websites, and the team reconstructs it in Google Earth with pipeline overlays and Excel.

The Atlas Fuel Routing & Logistics Model equips the retail end user by routing origin to rack across pipeline, rail, marine highways, and truck, and pricing each leg in cents per gallon from published tariffs, which results in a netback check in a minute.

Benefits

The same engine as Atlas: one canonical routing and logistics model powers the Atlas UI and this API, so the number your app gets is the number an Atlas user sees.
Real economics: costs built from published pipeline tariffs, line loss charges, terminal fees, and assessed freight rates, with estimates flagged as estimates.
Built for integration: clean CSV, XLSX, and JSON responses keyed to unique Mills codes, ready for client-side applications.
Reference data included: the spot-to-rack formulas, logistics costs, taxes, and specs behind every answer are downloadable alongside the routes.

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Access & subscription pricing

Standard subscription

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Billed annually

Component coverage

Component	Routing Model	Atlas	Gauge	Rack Price Report	Rack Pricing Data	Reference Data
Physical infrastructure map (Continental US)
Rack terminals	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
Pipelines	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
Pipeline interconnects	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
Railways	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
Marine highways	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
Refineries	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
Ethanol plants	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
Storage tanks	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
Regulatory layers
Fuel regulation zones (RFG, CARB, CBG, TxLED)	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
RVP and seasonal spec calendar	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
Reference data
Company directory	Partial	Included	Partial	Not included	Not included	Included
People and contact information	Not included	Included	Not included	Not included	Not included	Included
Spot-to-rack price formulas	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Included
Terminal fees	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Included
Pipeline tariffs and line loss	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Included
Rail freight rates	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Included
Marine freight rates	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Included
Trucking freight rates	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Included
Fuel taxes (federal and state)	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Included
Refined product specifications	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Included
Code Cross Reference Service (CRS)	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Included
Rack price assessments (MARC)
East Coast (PADD 1)	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included	Not included
Midwest (PADD 2)	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included	Not included
Gulf Coast (PADD 3)	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included	Not included
Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)	Not included	Partial	Not included	Partial	Partial	Not included
West Coast (PADD 5)	Not included	Coming soon	Not included	Coming soon	Coming soon	Not included
Spot price assessments
New York Harbor	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included	Not included
US Gulf Coast	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included	Not included
Group 3 (Mid-Continent)	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included	Not included
Chicago	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included	Not included
Los Angeles	Not included	Coming soon	Not included	Coming soon	Coming soon	Not included
San Francisco	Not included	Coming soon	Not included	Coming soon	Coming soon	Not included
Pacific Northwest	Not included	Coming soon	Not included	Coming soon	Coming soon	Not included
Market color
Rack Market Heards	Not included	Not included	Not included	Not included	Included	Not included

Included — full access within the product Partial — the subset that product's workflows need Coming soon — on the roadmap Not included — outside this product

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Atlas Fuel Routing & Logistics Model

Overview

Key information

Use cases

Model the competitor's cost

Cost a gallon from refinery to rack

Benefits

Details

Access & subscription pricing

Component coverage

More from Mills

Atlas

Gauge

Calendar

Rack Price Report

Rack Pricing Data

Reference Data

Route product like you route a road trip