diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f3ba235..9c5bdf0 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     docker-ce-cli \
   && apt-get clean
 
+ADD requirements.txt .
+CMD pip install -r requirements.txt
 ADD scripts/ scripts/
 ADD patch_raw_gtfs.sh patch_filtered_gtfs.sh ./
 ADD download.sh .
diff --git a/makefile b/makefile
index 7e6d949..c0839e8 100644
--- a/makefile
+++ b/makefile
@@ -230,3 +230,6 @@ download: $(RAW_GTFS_FEEDS)
 data/www/index.html: $(RAW_GTFS_FEEDS) $(GTFS_VALIDATION_RESULTS)
 	$(info generating GTFS feed index from $(^F))
 	./generate_gtfs_index.sh <config/gtfs-feeds.csv >data/www/index.html
+
+data/gtfs-rt/vvs_gtfsrt_alerts_herrenberg/body.pbf:
+	python3 scripts/translate_vvs_gtfs_rt_service_alerts.py -g 'data/gtfs/VVS.raw.gtfs.zip' -s 'https://gtfsr-servicealerts.vvs.de' -o $@ de-vvs-alerts > data/gtfs-rt/vvs_gtfsrt_alerts_herrenberg/body.txt
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9e1871
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+requests==2.32.3
+beautifulsoup4==4.12.3
+protobuf==3.20
+lxml==5.3.0
+git+https://github.com/mfdz/gtfs-realtime-translators@fork
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/translate_vvs_gtfs_rt_service_alerts.py b/scripts/translate_vvs_gtfs_rt_service_alerts.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8074a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/translate_vvs_gtfs_rt_service_alerts.py
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+import argparse
+import requests
+import signal
+import sys
+import time
+import logging
+import os
+import tempfile
+
+from gtfs_realtime_translators.registry import TranslatorRegistry
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+HIGH_PRIO_ROUTES = [
+"de:vvs:20019_:",
+"de:vvs:31751_:",
+"de:vvs:31753_:",
+"de:vvs:31770_:",
+"de:vvs:31773_:",
+"de:vvs:31780_:",
+"de:vvs:31782_:",
+"de:vvs:31783_:",
+"de:vvs:31790_:",
+"de:vvs:31791_:",
+"de:vvs:31794_:",
+"de:vvs:31794_:",
+"de:vvs:34070_:",
+"de:vvs:34077_:",
+"de:naldo:53N80_:",
+"de:vvs:50775_:",
+"de:vvs:50773_:",
+"de:vvs:50779_:",
+"de:vvs:50780_:",
+"de:vvs:50782_:",
+"de:vvs:50783_:",
+"de:vvs:50794_:",
+"de:vvs:31X77_:",
+"de:vvs:50773_:",
+"de:vvs:31774_:",
+"de:vvs:50775_:",
+"de:vvs:50780_:",
+"de:vvs:50775_:",
+"de:vvs:10001_:",
+"de:vvs:10011_:",
+"de:vvs:11063_:",
+"de:vvs:36063e:",
+"de:vvs:12047_:",
+"de:vvs:11014_:",
+"de:vvs:11004_:",]
+
+HIGH_PRIO_KEYWORDS = ['Herrenberg', 'Gäubahn', 'Ammertalbahn']
+
+def interrupt_handler(signum, frame):
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+def atomic_write(destFile, content):
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) as f:
+        f.write(content)
+        # make sure that all data is on disk
+        # see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7433057/is-rename-without-fsync-safe
+        f.flush()
+        os.fsync(f.fileno())    
+        os.replace(f.name, destFile)  
+
+
+def main(translator, source, gtfsfile, interval, outpath, user_agent):
+    translator_args = {'gtfsfile': gtfsfile, 'high_prio_keywords': HIGH_PRIO_KEYWORDS, 'high_prio_route_ids': HIGH_PRIO_ROUTES, }
+    request_headers = {'user-agent': user_agent}
+    last_last_modified = None
+    while True:
+        try:
+            # if lastModified date of gtfs file changed (or the first time), we re-initialize
+            current_last_modified = os.path.getmtime(gtfsfile)
+            if last_last_modified != current_last_modified:
+                translator_class = TranslatorRegistry.get(translator)
+                translator = translator_class(**translator_args)
+                last_last_modified = current_last_modified
+
+            response = requests.get(source, stream=True, headers=request_headers)
+            response.raw.decode_content = True
+
+            feed = translator(response.content)
+            print(feed)
+            atomic_write(outpath, feed.SerializeToString())
+        except Exception:
+            logger.exception(f'Error translating {translator}')
+
+        time.sleep(interval)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, interrupt_handler)
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        prog='gtfs-realtime-translator',
+        description='Translates realtime transit data sources to gtfs-rt',)
+    parser.add_argument('translator', help='translator')
+    parser.add_argument('-s', '--source', nargs='?', help='source url to retrieve data from')
+    parser.add_argument('-g', '--gtfsfile', nargs='?', help='gtfs file to map data to')
+    parser.add_argument('-i', '--interval', nargs='?', default=60)
+    parser.add_argument('-o', '--outpath', required=True)
+    parser.add_argument('-u', '--useragent', default="gtfs_realtime_translator (https://github.com/mfdz/gtfs_realtime_translator/)")
+    
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    main(args.translator, args.source, args.gtfsfile, args.interval, args.outpath, args.useragent)
+
+
+# python3 translate_vvs_gtfs_rt_service_alerts.py -g 'data/gtfs/VVS.raw.gtfs.zip' -s 'https://gtfsr-servicealerts.vvs.de' de-vvs-alerts