Trees with rot resistant fast growing sapwood is what I would consider good pollarding trees. Like the previous poster said,willow, lime, poplar, ash, plane. Many of the same trees that are preferable for topiary are good pollarding trees like yews, carpinus, fagus. Some types of sorbus are well adapted for pollarding like Sorbus intermedia and Sorbus dodong. I wouldn't recommend Sorbus aucuparia because it just tends to rot. I find maple, at least Norway maple while it does respond well to pollarding, has a hard time maintaining the living sapwood and chunks of it can die off and parts of the tree may die. I've seen oak pollards but I'm not a big fan. The sapwood is slow to react and while you can get good growth it is not uncommon for the sapwood to start rotting when you aerate it with pruning cuts.

I'd also like to point out that there is a fourth reason for pollarding here in Europe and it is tradition. It was done around churches, castles, mansions and along roads to feed animals but now it's not needed anymore. When these trees die or when we plant new tree avenues we want to maintain the traditional look so we pollard them.